Patrick Cox Quotes

Life is all about seating and lighting.

Make your physical surroundings as beautiful as possible.

We need to pay attention to the whole space - every room, chair and table - so it feels uplifting and inspiring.

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

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I never did care much for the upholstery of office.

I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

Design should revolve around what the main purpose of the space is. If you plan to live there, it should reflect your personality.

There are certain parts of the home that I think embellishment feels cozy and inviting. Then there are other environments, for example, the living room, where I don't have a ton of items on the table.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

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.

I've always been inspired by beautiful interiors.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

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