--- title: "4 Jim Walrod Quotes - Famous Interior designer" description: "American interior designer... | James John Walrod was often referred to as a “design guru\". A self-taught interior design consultant and collector of ra..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-jim-walrod-72052.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Jim Walrod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-jim-walrod-72052.jpg) # Jim Walrod (1966–2017) Interior Designer **4** quotes in **27** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Jim Walrod was an interior designer. ## Quick Facts About Jim Walrod Born January 1, 1966 Died September 25, 2017 Profession Interior Designer ## About Jim Walrod American interior designer... \| James John Walrod was often referred to as a “design guru". A self-taught interior design consultant and collector of rare and unusual art, design and pop culture works, Walrod was also considered an expert in the field of mid century and Postmodern design. ## Quotes by Jim Walrod > [There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-walrod/there-s-a-generation-of-people-that-do-fetishize-books-and-do/) [Jim Walrod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-walrod/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/jim-walrod-72052_book_there-s-a-generation-of-people-that-do-f_253122.jpg) > [Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-walrod/book-culture-has-also-become-something-that-s-kind-of-incredible-to/) [Jim Walrod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-walrod/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/081/jim-walrod-72052_age_book-culture-has-also-become-something-t_1720596.jpg) > [I always look at magazines and wind up standing there like, "Whose house looks like this? Who lives this way?" I never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-walrod/i-always-look-at-magazines-and-wind-up-standing-there-like-whose/) [Jim Walrod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-walrod/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/jim-walrod-72052_art_i-always-look-at-magazines-and-wind-up-s_2492566.jpg) > [What does my taste have to do with the personality of the person I'm working for? It's taking them through a journey…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-walrod/what-does-my-taste-have-to-do-with-the-personality-of-the-person-i-m/) [Jim Walrod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-walrod/) [Beautiful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/jim-walrod-72052_beautiful_what-does-my-taste-have-to-do-with-the-p_3001450.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-walrod/#itemlist", "name": "Jim Walrod Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. 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