Stephen Bayley

I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person…

— Stephen Bayley

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle…

— Stephen Bayley

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims…

— Stephen Bayley

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into…

— Stephen Bayley

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning…

— Stephen Bayley

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary…

— Stephen Bayley

We have a relationship of cheerful antagonism. I enjoy twisting his tail and he enjoys wagging his finger at me.

— Stephen Bayley

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort…

— Stephen Bayley

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

— Stephen Bayley

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing…

— Stephen Bayley

It is Margaret Thatcher's fault...Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given…

— Stephen Bayley

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes…

— Stephen Bayley

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

— Stephen Bayley

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

— Stephen Bayley

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

— Stephen Bayley

You are what you pretend to be.

— Stephen Bayley

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most…

— Stephen Bayley

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt…

— Stephen Bayley

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort…

— Stephen Bayley

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but…

— Stephen Bayley

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by…

— Stephen Bayley

I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a…

— Stephen Bayley

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be.…

— Stephen Bayley

Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its…

— Stephen Bayley

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late…

— Stephen Bayley