34 Quotes by Stephen Bayley

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

We have a relationship of cheerful antagonism. I enjoy twisting his tail and he enjoys wagging his finger at me.

It is Margaret Thatcher's fault, ... Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given short shrift, as short as the trade unions: nothing including old-fashioned industry was to obstruct economic progress. Making things was slow. There were quicker ways to get rich...

'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?

''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?

I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.