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

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

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

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.