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Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
Albert Hadley
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Albert Hadley
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 8
Died: 2012
Died: March 29
Interior Designer
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Manners
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When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.
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Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.
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Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
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Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.
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Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.
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....the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people look at a lot of thing but never see anything. Looking is emotional seeing is an intellectual process.
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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
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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.
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The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
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Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.
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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.
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Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
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An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
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You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
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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 wellbeing.
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To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.
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The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank.
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Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
Albert Hadley
So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.
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A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people treating the things that surround them with respect.
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