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Source: Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography

“It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never totally metaphysical; it is never a 'destiny' but always a fact with some kind of historical reference. To put an object on a base means to monumentalize it, to make everyone aware it exists.”

Kind Mean Important Facts Form Realizing Destiny Design Objects Historical Metaphysical Interior Design Metaphorical

Book:Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography

Source: Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography

“...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.”

Book Done House Chance Destiny Doubt Design Limits Clothes Theater No Doubt Sooner Or Later Interior Design

Author:Ettore Sottsass

“Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.”

Mind States Design Perception Ritual State Of Mind Unusual Interior Design Decoration

Book:Design metaphors

Source: Design metaphors

“If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.”

Ifs Thinking May Sides Destiny Doors Design Meetings Our Destiny Your Destiny Interior Design

Book:Design metaphors

Source: Design metaphors

“Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.”

May Character House Design Interior Design Everyman

Author:John Ruskin

“In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.”

Want Form House Quality Sky Design Fields Harmony Independent Secure Sensual Colour Furniture Interior Design

Author:John Ruskin

“It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.”

Individual Rooms Mistake Pieces Style Design Fine Taste Architecture Absurd Suits Distinction Furniture Interior Design Bathing Bathing Suits Tiaras

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one 'mouvement' thng like the Savonnerie rug that would stand out. You must have 'mouvement' everywhere.”

Wanted Rooms Design Quiet Standing Out Harmonious Interior Design

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.”

Ifs Firsts Faces Strong Design Garden Structure Plant Shoes Bones Seeds Unexpected Formal Crowded Interior Design Haphazard Layout

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“I've lived too long and I've lived too well.”

Wells Long Design Interior Design

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.”

Ifs Feels Trying Fighting House Style Design Personality Periods Architecture Juice Spoil Interior Design Decorators

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.”

Realizing Fashion Design Taste Essence Simplicity Preserves Interior Design

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Perfect Rooms Successful Pieces Design Periods Add Nostalgia Charm Museums Shade Interior Design Lifeless

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.”

Thinking Design Importance Scales Prime Interior Design

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.”

Feels Trying Firsts House Realizing Design Personality Periods Interior Design Restoring

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.”

Different Realizing Design Aspect Colour Interior Design

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).”

Wells Bits Rooms Design Flow Gentle Furniture Mixtures Continuity Salad Interior Design Mixing

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).”

Able Beautiful House Design Lucky Husband My Friends Interior Design Beautiful Places

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.”

Thinking Firsts House Memories Rooms Forever Design Vivid Deep Down Interior Design

Author:Sister Parish

“...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Trying Firsts Persons Ideas Helping Asks Memories Rooms Design Reactions Ask Me Interior Design

Author:Sister Parish

“Rooms should be timeless.”

Should Rooms Design Timeless Interior Design

Author:Sister Parish

“Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.”

Past Beautiful Ability Design Innovation Lasting Interior Design

Author:Sister Parish

“Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.”

Art Rooms Design Objects Furniture Interior Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.”

Use Values Three Understanding Rooms Design Color Obvious Various Factors Intensity Interior Design Hue Connotation

Author:Van Day Truex

“Control, edit and distill.”

Design Edits Interior Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“Good design is forever.”

Forever Design Interior Design Good Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.”

Use Form Used Example Design Color Approach Ideals Structure Architecture Related Interiors Interior Design Decoration Fuse Mosaics Byzantine

Author:Van Day Truex

“I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.”

Ifs Character Choices Wonder Design Color Personality Elements Aspect Absence Interiors Interior Design Personality And Character

Author:Van Day Truex

“Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.”

Rich Design Color Typical Interior Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“It is obvious that any rather non-color, monochromatic design is safe, easier, more generally restful and with life being the hurdy-gurdy that it is, more and more of us prefer and interior giving the maximum response.”

Giving Design Color Easier Safe Response Obvious Interiors Maximum Interior Design Restful Monochromatic

Author:Van Day Truex

“Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.”

Needs Values Design Color Contrast Vibrations Interior Design Congestion Bright Colors

Author:Van Day Truex

“It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger knowledge, more experience and flair.”

Needs Values Design Color Approach Stronger Intensity Interiors Interior Design Hue Flair General Knowledge

Author:Van Day Truex

“The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.”

Use Happens Strong Rooms Design Color Approach Battlefields Living On Interior Design Unifying

Author:Van Day Truex

“Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.”

Remember Design Color Structure Mood Temperature Interior Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.”

Persons Ideas Care Individual Force Figures Design Negative Don't Care Contemporary Combination I Don't Care Designer Clients Definite Interior Design Decoration Good Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!”

Two Speak Differences Rooms Design Interiors Interior Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.”

Art Today Modern Achieve Design Scene Approach Variety Designer Controlled Reign Interiors Interior Design Unified Decoration

Author:Van Day Truex

“There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.”

Rooms Design Periods Setting Contemporary Settings Interior Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.”

Ideas Done Inspiration Natural Design Source Rely Museums Interior Design Natural History Metropolitan Museum Of Natural History

Author:Van Day Truex

“In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.”

Mother Teacher Design Interior Design Mother Nature Best Teacher

Author:Van Day Truex

“Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.”

Way Important Eye Understanding Design Training Gains Management Appreciation Interior Design Good Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.”

Design Interior Design

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.”

Believe I Believe White Design Optimism Paint I Believe In Plenty Interior Design

Book:Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration

Source: Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration

“We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.”

Use Accepting Design Standards Interior Design

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.”

Writing Given Pay Style Design Limits Taxes Rational Conform Grammar Interior Design

Author:Elsie de Wolfe

“Simplicity, suitability and proportion.”

Design Simplicity Proportion Interior Design

Book:Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration

Source: Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration

“The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.”

Virtue Design Restraint Interior Design Cardinals

Book:After all

Source: After all

“You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.”

Design Pockets Interior Design Shrouds

Author:Elsie de Wolfe

“I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.”

Giving Mean Persons Art Done Culture House Advice Design Wealthy Interiors Inclination Interior Design Decoration Nothing New Giving Advice

Book:Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration

Source: Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration

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