Stephen Bayley Quotes

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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Bayley
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

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Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

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Alas, in a culture that encourages feeble-minded political correctness, great monuments and great works of art are not to be expected.

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Design is the great adventure of the twentieth century; it's led... to the aestheticization of the everyday object, to the democratization of luxury. Today, you, me and even young Peter Mandelson can buy a disposable Bic razor for next to nothing and get a better shave than ever Augustus Caesar or the Sun King could.

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Viewed holistically, interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers – the rich.

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Stephen Bayley