Nicholas Ponsonby 'Nicky' Haslam (born 27 September 1939) is an English interior designer and socialite and founder of the London-based interior design firm NH Design Inc. Read full biography of Nicholas Haslam →
I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.
Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude.... →
It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely... →
Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.
I have a natural curiosity for people.
I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.
It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in... →
Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to... →
Nicholas Ponsonby 'Nicky' Haslam (born 27 September 1939) is an English interior designer and socialite and founder of the London-based interior design firm NH Design Inc.