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Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.
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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....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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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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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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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.
Albert Hadley
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.
Albert Hadley
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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Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.
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Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.
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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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I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
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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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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 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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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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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.
Albert Hadley
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
A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
Albert Hadley
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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After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
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