Quotes About Design

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.

I know Louboutin extremely well. He has a mind and a vision of life that is extremely creative. He designs his shops, his homes, the way he lives.

When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to open homes with my mother and I used to imagine how I could make the space better and how people would live in it.

You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

Actually, I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, 'Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?' But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.

Hopefully, no one will feel self-conscious in anything that I've designed.

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

More pianos in hotel rooms please.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.

I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

A house is a machine for living in.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

What does a house want to be?

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do.

We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

I really love houses.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.