Christian Louboutin Quotes

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

I think of houses as having their own personality.

People want to create a space that feels like them - one that's deeply rooted in their personality. That's important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That's why I think every material - down to your faucet - needs to serve a function and feel personal.

I love architecture.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.

I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

A lot of places in Las Vegas are big boxes of stuff. The hotels I've built have had, for lack of a better term, a soul.

To have a beautiful house on the outside is one thing... Once you get inside, that's what really makes a home.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Everything I've designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.

When I make chairs, they have legs; they can go anywhere in the world. Interiors are a different responsibility. A house is a representation of where you are, and it has to be right for the place.

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

Architecture is not about form

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.