“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)
“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)
“Destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– Henry Miller, American novelist & painter (1891-1980)
"Choice is the essence of luxury."
– Stark Carpet
“Casual elegance is all about the mix.”
– Charlotte Moss, American interior designer
“Exquisite details make interiors sing.”
– Larry Laslo, designer
“The more mass produced our homes, furnishings and electronics become, the greater the appeal of handcrafted products.”
– Architectural Digest
"Make every room a living room." -Alexandra Stoddard
“But man does not create, he discovers.”
– Antonio Gaudi, Spanish architect & designer (1852-1926)
“Comfort, even in the most formal areas, is mandatory, as is timelessness, a blessed attribute that straddles fad and period.”
– Barry Dixon, designer
“Lately, I have been thinking how comfort is perhaps the ultimate luxury.”
– Billy Baldwin, interior designer
“Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to form.”
– Johannes Itten, Swiss expressionist painter (1888-1967)
“Good design is forever.”
Zelina Brunschwig, Director, Brunschwig & Fils (1897-1981)
“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)
-Yves Saint Laurent
"A room should start a conversation before people actually start exchanging words."
-Barry Dixon