Bigs Quote by Genevieve Gorder

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…

— Albert Hadley

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how…

— Nate Berkus

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…

— Albert Hadley

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

— Albert Hadley

Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage.…

— Nicholas Haslam

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…

— Nancy Lancaster

I always look at magazines and wind up standing there like, "Whose house looks like this? Who lives this way?" I never can understand…

— Jim Walrod

When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is…

— Albert Hadley

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

— Ed Benguiat

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

— Anonymous

I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating,…

— Albert Hadley