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All Quotes by author - Anouska Hempel
" A house must be bedded in the landscape. They both have to work together. In and out, every view from a window has to be sensational. Every view into the house must be the same to ensure continuity. "
Landscape
Together
View
" Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good. "
Actress
Things
Look
" Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time. "
Made
Time
Wins
" Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse. "
Way
Along
Keep
" England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation. "
Motivation
World
Quality
" From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view. "
Age
Point Of View
View
" Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness. "
You
Problems
People
" I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes. "
Basis
Best
Buy
" I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel. "
Style
Art
Simplicity
" If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point? "
Set
Something
Why Not
" I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody? "
Look
Imagine
Why
" I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast. "
Fast
Road
People
" I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures. "
Inspiration
Short
Always
" I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. "
Architecture
Be Strong
Strong
" I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything. "
Confidence
Turn
You
" It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work. "
Noticed
Who
Work
" It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets. "
Design
Glass
Space
" My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy. "
Why
Father
Beginning
" Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right. "
Bad
Day
Feeling
" Sure, I'm hyperactive. I make my staff a bit hyper, too, but motivating someone else is what gives me a buzz. "
Me
Sure
Someone
" The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings. "
Furniture
Museum
Me
" The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden. "
Yourself
Night
People
" The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better. "
Same
Back
Better
" When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and wildflower meadows. The chalets are cozy - I don't do cozy. The meadows are in a soft disarray - I don't do soft, and I don't do disarray. I do order. "
Style
Mountains
Building
" Work's a way of life. It's the way you live; it's what you do, and it's how it is. It's not work. It's a lifestyle. It's life. It's what one does. You can't not work. "
Way
You
Work
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