Kathy Ireland Quotes

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.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?

I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.

Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future.

I guess you could say I want to become like Martha Stewart - just a sexier version!

I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis

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

All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

I'm a big fan of Amy Sedaris, and one of her decorating mainstays is to put googly eyes on everything.

Martha Stewart was the one who really did show everybody that you can do everything.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

I love Marcel Wanders.

Your home should be an extension of you and who you are as a person. If you can come home, and actually feel at home... that's fantastic design.

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it.

I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too.