Nate Berkus Quotes

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

Design is everything.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

Building design isn't trendy.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Good design should be honest.

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.