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Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.

Albert Hadley

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Albert Hadley
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 8
Died: 2012
Died: March 29
Interior Designer
Discipline
Design
Beyond
Reality
Fantasy

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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 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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Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
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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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Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
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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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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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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
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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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We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.
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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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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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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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After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
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Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
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The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
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To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.
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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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You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
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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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