I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach.

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.