The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt... →
Eva Zeisel
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines... →
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.
Dasha Zhukova
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest... →
Peter Zumthor
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm... →
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its... →
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to... →
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik