Quotes About Design

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

I try to create homes, not houses.

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the time, so I decided to decorate other people's homes and buildings.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two

To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.