Quote by 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 who cares…

— Stephen Bayley

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

— Stephen Bayley

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

— 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 a blood-spitting…

— 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 to do…

— 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 process.

— 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 of insecurity…

— 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 advertisements which…

— 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 short shrift,…

— Stephen Bayley

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

— Stephen Bayley

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

— Stephen Bayley