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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.

Albert Hadley

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Albert Hadley
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 8
Died: 2012
Died: March 29
Interior Designer
Show
Grips
Shows
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Decorating
Together
Nourish
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Lifestyle
World
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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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Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
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Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.
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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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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 decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.
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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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You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
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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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Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
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Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. Its well, it's magic.
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Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.
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To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.
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Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
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Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.
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After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
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Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.
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Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
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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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