Fred Schneider Quotes

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

The sofa is a really important investment for anybody, and I don't mean financially. You need to find a really great sofa that can transition with you, and you can build from there.

I've got a furniture range with my wife, and I want to get into designing hotels and restaurants as well. We've got a big studio in Victoria and a showroom in Belgravia. I've always been interested in architecture.

Gauri Khan Designs has bespoke furniture for your living room - and the outdoors, too!

I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and gave it a bit of technicolour.

I'm obsessed with my couch. I have the greenest couch on the planet.

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

I've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.