Read moreI don’t consider myself a fashion designer.
Read moreAbout half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Read moreWhen I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
Read moreThe first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
Read moreI design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it… the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.
Read moreIt is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.