Albert Hadley Quotes

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• Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
• Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
• The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive,…
• Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.
• Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to…
• Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
• A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
• The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients…
• Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
• After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
• I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
• 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.
• Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a…
• Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair,…
• So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.
• Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.
• I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and…
• A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the…
• So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never…
• An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

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