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For my first apartment, when ...

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

My favorite is the garlic pre...

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.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

The Alessi relationship and t...

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

Michael Graves 29 quotes

The design of the building ad...

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

We've taken on health care in...

We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

We use blue on the handle of ...

We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

I taught at Princeton for 39 ...

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

I grew up in a time when Eame...

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

I used a kind of gray-green e...

I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

When I design a building, I'm...

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

When you do what I do, there ...

When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

Good design to me is both app...

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

As a child, I was obsessed wi...

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

You can never draw enough or ...

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

I'm working on a school of ar...

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

We always correct people who ...

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

On the first day I got my whe...

On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

The oldest book I have is a t...

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Michael Graves 29 quotes

The dialogue of architecture ...

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

Michael Graves 29 quotes

In any architecture, there is...

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

Michael Graves 29 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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