“A great chair should look as if it could spring at you and take you in its arms.”
– Roger Banks-Pye, Interior Design Director, Decorating Division, Colefax & Fowler (1948-1996)
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“Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well-being.”
– Albert Hadley, interior decorator
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“Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!”
– Van Day Truex, Interior Designer, Director of Design, Tiffany & Co. (d.1979)
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“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind…A mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.”
– Oleg Cassini, French-born American fashion designer (1913 – 2006)
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"A person with a real flair is a gambler at heart." -Billy Baldwin
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“I must have books everywhere. They’re the soul of a room—they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there."—Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg
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“A room should start a conversation before people actually start exchanging words.”
– Barry Dixon, interior designer
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Sadly, this week the world said goodbye to the extraordinary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Following are some inspirational words of wisdom from this amazing icon:
"Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself"
"There is always an emotional element to anything you make."
"I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops."
"I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right."
"The great thing about fashion is it always looks forward."
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“A person with a real design flair is a gambler at heart.”
– Billy Baldwin, interior designer
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"The best designs are born from the best client-designer relationships. They aren’t born from relationships where the designer calls all the shots; the best designs aren’t born from when the client tries to play designer. No, the best designs are born from a client-designer relationship that follows these three steps: clear role definition, honest & open communication, and trust.”
– Paper-Leaf.com, Canadian design company
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“I’m for style – fashions change too often.”
– Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer (1883 – 1971)