Designers

“There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.”

“Complicare è facile, semplificare è difficile.”

“Complicating is easy, simplifying is hard.”

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”

“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living — living in harmony with man's deepest drives and with his adopted or fabricated environment.”

“La mode se démode, le style jamais.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

“Weniger, aber besser.”

“Less, but better.”

“Ho proposto che tutti costruissero i propri mobili, non perché volessi un mondo di cattiva falegnameria, ma perché l'atto di fare qualcosa con le proprie mani ti connette alla realtà dell'oggetto e spezza l'incantesimo del consumo.”

“I proposed that everyone should build their own furniture, not because I wanted a world of bad carpentry, but because the act of making something with your hands connects you to the reality of the object and breaks the spell of consumption.”

“Design should be a discussion about life, society, politics, food, and design itself.”

“Design is not for philosophy — it's for life.”

“既知を未知化することは、未知を既知化することよりもずっと重要である。”

“Making the known unknown is more important than making the unknown known.”

“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”

“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.”

“Experimental is not a dirty word.”

“Don't try to be original, just try to be good.”

“It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”

“Everything I have designed was in order to overcome my shyness.”

“I don't feel too much part of the fashion world.”

“You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt or in front of a piece of graphic design.”

“There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them. And possibly only one profession is phonier. Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.”

“Everything I do is for the 17-year-old version of myself.”

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

“Les modes passent, le style est éternel.”

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”