design concept Quotes

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

I like to adapt to each city. I like to come up with a concept for each space I do. The vibe in L.A. is a little sexier than New York, so the colors are a little different.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

I'd like to cut an attitude into clothes.

For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.