Quotes by David Linley - Page 2

In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.
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Furniture
Identical
Nails
Implies
Industrially
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I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design.
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Design
Bicycle
Potholes
Proof
Stolen
Instantly
Stand Up
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Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a media room does not.
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Well Being
Libraries
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A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they've inspired people to make things - that inspiration would be a great legacy.
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Inspiration
Involved
Legacy
Teamwork
Great People Things
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I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and beauty.
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Beauty
Inner Strength
Passion
Seen
Centuries
Inner
Wherever
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I reckon if you stick to the same thing every day for lunch when you are traveling, you know where you are. And it is one less decision to make.
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Lunch
Reckon
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Californians are not so precious about their antiques, not so nervous about what others will think if they mix classic with modern, old with new.
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Antiques
Californians
New Will Old
Mix
Precious
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My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.
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Doors
Facade
Round
Letter
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My father and I share a passion for how things work, which in my case took the form of schoolboy fascination with machines and mechanical contraptions.
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Fascination
Machines
Case
Mechanical
Schoolboy
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It's far nicer to congregate around a card table than a television. It takes me back to my childhood, when we'd play family card games like Racing Demon.
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Demon
Racing
Family Childhood Me
Card
Nicer
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My dining room table is just a huge, great thick slab of oak on a beautiful frame. Whenever people come to supper I invite them to carve their name in it.
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Dining
Huge
Supper
Thick
Great Beautiful People
Name
Carve
Dining Room
Frame
Invite
Oak
Room
Table
Whenever
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My design teachers were teaching us how to mass-manufacture; how to create something, but it's not lasting - it's always about the next trend, it's the next thing.
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Lasting
Next Thing
Trend
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A lot of the design courses in schools and colleges don't incorporate very much making, and a lot of the making courses incorporate too much technology and computers.
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Computers
Courses
Colleges
Incorporate
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There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and charm.
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Charm
Creative Spirit
Eccentricity
Ingenuity
Reassuring
Wit
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There are so many super yachts being built nowadays. I don't know where the people go with them. Because the people who can afford them haven't got the time to use them.
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Time People Know
Nowadays
Yachts
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There was a time when craft used to mean anything but the considered, stylish or academic. It was a term of derision. The 'craft fair' on the village green was to be avoided.
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Academic
Avoided
Derision
Stylish
Village
Craft
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My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.
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Sportsman
Circle
Photographing
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I love wood. I love its permanence, its way of changing hue over the years, its way of expanding and contracting, of moving or aging and growing better and more beautiful with time.
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Aging
Contracting
Expanding
Hue
Moving
Permanence
Years
Love Time Beautiful
Changing
Over
Wood
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My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.
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Primarily
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If you cut me open, you would find bits of me looking at things with an aesthetic eye, also with a historical eye. But mostly at the way things have transported themselves through time.
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Aesthetic
Bits
Time Me Way
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Bedales was perfect for my sister and me. Very open. Very few rules. No uniforms. Co-educational. And very little of 'You have to do this like this.' You very much controlled your education.
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Sister
Controlled
Perfect
Uniforms
Rules
Open
Few
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I'm extremely proud of my relations and my heritage and my family. That's one side of my life, and my work is the other side of my life, and... I've always tried to keep them, you know apart.
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Heritage
Life Family Work
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In an ideal world, you would have his-and-hers bathrooms and his-and-hers dressing rooms, complete with a single bed where the Mrs. need not be woken up when there's a 7 o'clock flight to catch.
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Flight
Ideal World
Rooms
Dressing
Ideal
Mrs
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Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of protocol or the fact I enjoyed it a little too much, I really couldn't say.
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Breach
Bow
Prompted
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We are not training crafts people as we used to do. We're not giving people the chance to learn. Education has become very academic. There's nothing wrong with academic for some people, but not all.
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Academic
Crafts
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We are no longer teaching young people to make things that are beautiful and of very high quality. We are not giving them the chance to learn how to create artefacts to a high standard of design and workmanship.
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Workmanship
High Standard
Standard
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I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe the things I had seen... Unusual furniture always seemed easier to remember than other things.
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Expecting
Furniture
Observation
Tested
Unusual
Always Me Remember
Describe
Father Me Remember
Houses
Powers
Visit
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I remember my father making many things. Once we made a shed, and a man in the village came along to help. After a couple of glasses of beer, he said, 'Give me a tape measure and I'll make it by eye,' and the result was so beautiful.
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Beer
Glasses
Tape
Village
Measure
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Children love making things, but they don't get the same opportunities now as practical subjects seem to be sidelined. I would love to see schools offering much more in the way of practical subjects to let children see what they can do.
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Offering
Subjects
Love Children Way
Practical
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Usually, when people think of marquetry, they think of Dutch 17th-century furniture with inlaid flowers and jugs. Our goal is to break down the barriers between old and new, to combine traditional marquetry techniques with a modern idiom.
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Barriers
Dutch
Furniture
Idiom
Combine
Techniques
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When I left Parnham aged 18, I could easily have ended up twiddling my thumbs in a workshop all week. But I lucked out and found an agent who immediately got me work and before long there was enough demand for my furniture to start a shop.
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Demand
Furniture
Thumbs
Work Me Long
Work Start Enough
Aged
Agent
Work Enough Long
Workshop
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The school I attended, Bedales, was fortunate to have been built by a leading light from the Arts and Crafts Movement in the 1890s. It contained a beautiful library, made originally of green oak and constructed with the help of the children.
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Crafts
Fortunate
Green
Movement
Arts
Attended
Constructed
Leading
Oak
Originally
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Ideally you should try to buy upholstered items that have retained their original fillings of horsehair, wool or down, because they provide a much more satisfying shape than when they have been replaced with foam rubber or other modern materials.
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Foam
Items
Materials
Replaced
Rubber
Satisfying
Wool
Original
Buy
Ideally
Provide
Shape
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My parents are very supportive of my work. It's my father who encourages me to keep going and my mother she's very proud. She's keen that I do something creative rather than just printing money in some city bank, you know which I couldn't have done, anyway.
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Supportive
Bank
Encourages
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My daughter makes great jewellery and my son wants to pursue engineering. They've both been indoctrinated by the school of Linley. People want to get back to painting, building, exploring what their creative sides can do - it's something all human beings crave.
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Crave
Engineering
Exploring
Jewellery
Pursue
Sides
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When I would visit my Granny as a little boy, we would play this game of closing our eyes and describing everything around us. The color of a tie. The shade of a cloth. It was really quite a wonderful way to learn how to look, to notice things and to appreciate what is around you.
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Closing
Describing
Granny
Shade
Notice
Tie
Visit
Wonderful Way
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I have bought and sold and bought and sold things that have given me great pleasure over the years, and I find I go through phases of what I'm passionate about. And then the next thing comes along, and so the only way of being able to collect the next one is to sell a few of the other ones.
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Phases
Great Me Way
Great Pleasure
Next Thing
Sold
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For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
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Wise
Antiques
Buying
Furniture
Throwing
Collector
Daunting
Foremost
Main Thing
Novice
Prospect
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I'll never forget the moment in 1985 when I was riding my motorbike down the King's Road and I first saw the words David Linley on the sign on my first shop. I nearly came off my bike. It was so incredibly public; I suddenly realised there was to be no stepping away from my work because my name was all over it.
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Bike
Motorbike
Never Forget
Over It
Realised
Riding
Stepping
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Design is important. I spend much of my working life as a designer. But how can you design for materials if you don't know what they can do? The feel of them, the possibilities, the capabilities? These are things you learn only by working with materials all the time. Frankly, a university degree is not much help in that.
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Designer
Materials
Working Life
Life Time Design
Capabilities
Frankly
Possibilities
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I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it out, making it myself, finishing it, polishing it, and delivering it, and writing the invoice and writing the letters, doing the books, doing the telephone bill and everything else like that.
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Buying
Cutting
Delivering
Finishing
Furniture
Letters
Truck
Designing
Everything Else
Polishing
Telephone
Wood
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My father's rooms, as a child, were a very exciting place to be. Not only because of the beautiful models who were coming to be photographed for Vogue or The Sunday Times but also because of the very avant-garde furniture that he had made. He made designs for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 at Caernarfon Castle.
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Avant Garde
Furniture
Models
Rooms
Sunday
Wales
Castle
Coming
Designs
Photographed
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There's a real hunger to understand where objects come from, how artists show their understanding of materials. And there's something fascinating about watching people work, whether it's someone engraving a gun or sewing beautiful clothes together. I know that myself; I'll make a piece of furniture and feel the wood's grain talking to me.
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Beautiful Clothes
Fascinating
Furniture
Grain
Gun
Hunger
Materials
Sewing
Work Myself Beautiful
Wood
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