Interior Decor Quotes

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

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

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

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

I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting design elements and beautiful bathrooms.

For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

Hollywood regency never goes out of style.

Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

My furniture is banal and my house is pretty empty. The hardest thing to find is a sofa that is comfortable and looks good. The ones I like are never comfortable.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It's been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction - he loves demolition and building new walls.

I like Church furniture.

I've always been into leopard print. No joke, when I was 14 years old I wanted my entire room to be covered in it.

I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

I do still collect chairs.