The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I love fashion and I love interior design. There are times when the two worlds collide but more often than not, they… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love. — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. — Chris Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
The majority of men can see and visualise the end part of the build, and their wives go, 'I just can't get… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture… I am entirely independent for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Fashion is a double-edged sword; the more fashionable it is, the less timeliness it has. However, the life expectancy of hotel design… — Editorial Board of Approaching Hotel Designers Copy Share Image
It is imperative to create luxury products that are also functional. My vision for fashion precludes frivolous, fantasy-only designs. That said, fashion… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels,… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two! — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. — William Morris Copy Share Image
Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. — William Morris Copy Share Image
A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large -… — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Copy Share Image
My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design… — Francesca Lo Schiavo Copy Share Image
When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty,… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
“I'm more preoccupied with furnishing my head than the place where I live. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds. — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
“A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
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