"Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery……" — Peter York

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. - Peter York

"Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture."

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61 Quotes by Peter York

Peter York has 61 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under…
All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more…
Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all…
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should…
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary…
Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and…
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting…
Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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