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You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.

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Albert Hadley
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 8
Died: 2012
Died: March 29
Interior Designer
Apartment
Traditional
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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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The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.
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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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After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
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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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....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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Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
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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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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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Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.
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Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.
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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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I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
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Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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