Quotes About Design

You can say what you like about late-sixties architecture, but when they baked in the ugly they baked it in good.

the Ikea bed with an incomprehensible name,

Sited a third of the way up Dartmouth Park Hill, it had obviously been designed by a keen admirer of Albert Speer, particularly his later work on the monumental fortifications of the Atlantic Wall.

The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who'd been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.

The furniture looked like John Lewis – expensive, comfortable and unimaginative.

Under the vaulted arch of its white iron-and-glass roof it was as if IKEA had been hired to refit St. Pancras station. If Thomas the Tank Engine had been Swedish, his living room would have looked just the same.

five story Georgian terrace whose elegant proportions would have caused the most hardened Canadian property developer's soul to weep to see such beauty—just prior to having the place gutted and filled with the latest in personality-free interior design.

The De Havilland Mosquito—or Anopheles de Havillandus, as military wags liked to call it—had proved a lethal nuisance to the Nazis ever since it went into production in 1940. Indeed, its effect on the German High Command was positively malarial. Designed

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

How could they reach such a conclusion? Their reasoning was simple and profound. They posited that virtually every object in creation is directed toward an end—a telos, in Greek. The value of an object lies in its capacity to achieve the purpose for which it was designed. Facts and values aren't separate things—values are embedded within facts. For example, a watch is virtuous if it tells time properly; a horse is virtuous if it properly pulls a cart.

Buonarroti was later given the job of designing the huge dome of the new Basilica of St. Peter. It is well known how much he loved the simplicity and perfection of ancient Roman architecture. His favorite building of all was the Pantheon, the central shrine to the Greek and Roman idols, built by Hadrian in the first half of the second century.

Living rooms are arranged around the TV, but when you take away the box you have the freedom to arrange the room to suit yourself.

Design should revolve around what the main purpose of the space is. If you plan to live there, it should reflect your personality.

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.

My design style is really a reflection of my fashion style, which is what I started in, working in fashion.

Homes are always a reflection of the people in them, my whole job is to understand the psychology of the family I am designing for, the world of design they'd like to live within, be happy and comfortable in.

I wanted to create a bridal collection that is both a natural extension of the mainline eveningwear but, at the same time, reflects the opulence of such an important celebratory event.

You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

I think I'm designed to regret everything.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.