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I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.
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No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.
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Painted mafritty fritters frittering fitty fitty scented candelabra abra cadaver. Candle blah blah.
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We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
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Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
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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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Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.
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The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it
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Decorate yourself with the beauty of love.
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The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
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The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.
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By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.
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Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated ... , and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.
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When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.
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Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.
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I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
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London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale.
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The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
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After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.
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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
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the bed, narrow apple-green draperies at
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Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.
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If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.
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The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.
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I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.
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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?
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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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Real luxury is customization.
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Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.
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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
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By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.
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...Violet followed her friend into the massive kitchen with its Restoration Hardware fixture and faux-weathered, farmhouse-style cabinets. Its perplexed Violet, the way people tried to make the insides of new homes look old.
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well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen,
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Living room by a curtain of colored beads. The room's furnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
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...Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.
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I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
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Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
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I'm so fond of luxury
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The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
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Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.
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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.
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Music is interior decoration.
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If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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create interiors for modern living that are informed by a classic perspective with timeless appeal. In order to design spaces that work for who
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Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.
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I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,
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Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of tulle and swansdown, flowery silk, night-black velvet with glittering spangles everywhere like small, many-coloured blinker beacons.
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An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone.
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Every inch of the house is covered in flowers and lace and screams tacky. It's like Martha Stewart vomitted, and this is the crap that came out.
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All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
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She'd had it painted, and planted, and primped, and festooned, and draped to within an inch of its very long life. But it was asking too much of the poor thing. The result was something akin to dressing a bulldog up like an opera dancer. Underneath the tulle, it was still a bowlegged bulldog.
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One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.
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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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Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
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If there's one thing you can say about my apartment it's that it's constantly evolving, constantly changing. I think that is the mark of a good apartment; you can never really be done - It's like a proper wardrobe.
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Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.
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There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch.
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Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
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Fashion makes the fur fly.
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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
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Luxury is experiencing reality
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Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.
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Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully
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I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.
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Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry.
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.
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It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
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Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.
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Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica).
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More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.
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Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
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This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together.
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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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Bob [Sachs] is not the only client who wants a more finished look. People from out of state still see the 'Old West,' mining-camp look as new and exciting, but most don't want splinters [from unfinished wood] in their houses. The taste is more grown-up.
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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.
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Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?
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Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
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My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.
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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.
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I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.