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Design Quotes by Nancy Lancaster
- It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture…
- I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one 'mouvement'…
- I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it…
- I've lived too long and I've lived too well.
- Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try…
- I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
- I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every…
- Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.
- In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
- In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.
- A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit…
- 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 adored my houses…
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- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks