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Famous Quotes By Albert Hadley

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I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives. — Albert Hadley

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Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done. — Albert Hadley

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Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best. — Albert Hadley

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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

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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. — Albert Hadley

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Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important. — Albert Hadley

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You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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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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Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement. — Albert Hadley

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Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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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 ... — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer. — Albert Hadley

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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. It;s well, it's magic. — Albert Hadley

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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. — Albert Hadley

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Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality — Albert Hadley

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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

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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. — Albert Hadley