Patrick Cox Quotes

I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I'm an old-timey gal.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.

H. Schwarzenbach is a very traditional place. The store opened in the late 1800s, importing specialty items from all over the world. It was curated before we even used that word.

I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try. It often comes from an old hotel or an old restaurant, and I will adapt it to be residential.

In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.

From the 1920s through to the 1970s, bridal was related to the fashion of the times. Then in the 1980s, it became more historical, decadent, and ornate.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

I like vintage a lot.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.