Category: STYLE MOMENTS
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Style Moment | Wunderkammer Studio, Milan
“An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.” Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker
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Style Moment | Ironstone plates, Copenhagen
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” William Morris (1834-1896) English textile designer, artist, and writer
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Style Moment | Pietrasanta
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set her free.” Michelangelo (1475-1564) Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Lived and worked in Pietrasanta, carving his now famous sculptures, including David, from the local white statuary marble.
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Style Moment | Eymet, France
“A picture is a poem without words.” Horace (65 BC-8 BC) Roman lyric poet
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Style Moment | Marché Vernaison, Paris
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900 – 1944) French novelist (The Little Prince) and aviator
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Style Moment | Danish spoons
“Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.” Shaker lesson
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Style Moment | Vintage books in the Puces
“The idea of the past assumes its fullest significance and value only in those who are filled with a passion for the future.” Paul Valéry (1871-1945) French poet and philosopher
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Style Moment | Copenhagen still life
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) American author, poet, naturalist, historian, philosopher
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Style Moment | Astier de Villate, Paris
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” John Constable (1776 – 1837) English painter
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Style Moment | Paris garden
“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing. ” Paola Antonelli, Senior curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York
