Design Quote by George Edmund Street

I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design.

— Drew Scott

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

— Twyla Tharp

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had

— Francis Bacon Sr

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…

— Albert Hadley

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

— Mark Twain

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix…

— Nate Berkus

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

— Jil Sander

“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the architecture and…

— David Livermore

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

— Thom Mayne

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

— Deborah Needleman

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of…

— Barbara Hepworth

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

— Francis Bacon