The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
Interpretation
Interior design focuses on enhancing how people experience and utilize their living spaces.
This quote by Albert Hadley emphasizes that the core purpose of interior design is to cater to human needs and improve the way individuals inhabit their environments. It highlights the relationship between design and the lifestyle of the people who use those spaces, suggesting that the functionality and aesthetics of an interior are defined by the residents' lives and activities.
In practice
In an interior design seminar discussing the needs of clients.
So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
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