David Rockwell Quotes

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

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

Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

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

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

You can't chop down a symmetry

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.