“A great chair should look as if it could spring at you and take you in its arms.”
– Roger Banks-Pye, Interior Design Director, Decorating Division, Colefax & Fowler (1948-1996)
“A great chair should look as if it could spring at you and take you in its arms.”
– Roger Banks-Pye, Interior Design Director, Decorating Division, Colefax & Fowler (1948-1996)
“Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well-being.”
– Albert Hadley, interior decorator
“Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!”
– Van Day Truex, Interior Designer, Director of Design, Tiffany & Co. (d.1979)
“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind…A mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.”
– Oleg Cassini, French-born American fashion designer (1913 – 2006)
"A person with a real flair is a gambler at heart." -Billy Baldwin
“A room should start a conversation before people actually start exchanging words.”
– Barry Dixon, interior designer
Sadly, this week the world said goodbye to the extraordinary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Following are some inspirational words of wisdom from this amazing icon:
"Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself"
"There is always an emotional element to anything you make."
"I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops."
"I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right."
"The great thing about fashion is it always looks forward."
“A person with a real design flair is a gambler at heart.”
– Billy Baldwin, interior designer
"The best designs are born from the best client-designer relationships. They aren’t born from relationships where the designer calls all the shots; the best designs aren’t born from when the client tries to play designer. No, the best designs are born from a client-designer relationship that follows these three steps: clear role definition, honest & open communication, and trust.”
– Paper-Leaf.com, Canadian design company
“I’m for style – fashions change too often.”
– Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer (1883 – 1971)