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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.

Albert Hadley

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Albert Hadley
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 8
Died: 2012
Died: March 29
Interior Designer
Beauty
Nourishes
Quality
Decorating
Making
Sets
Soul
Magazines
Really
Pictures
Life
Creating
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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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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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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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The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
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I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
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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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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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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
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Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
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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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I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.
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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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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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....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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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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A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
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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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Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.
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