I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don't use it much because I'm allergic to garlic.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.