A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing read more

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.rn

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passeth away.

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passeth away.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But read more

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass read more

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!

Squinting upon the lustre
Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;
And, snuffing with a read more

Squinting upon the lustre
Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;
And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber,
The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.