A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
I’ve been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious – living minimally is.
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
Many years ago, I went with my husband and daughter to Denmark. In those years, you could bring $400 worth of furniture without taxes. We had three people, we bought $1,200 worth of furniture.
I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
I think the set looks great. It’s kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
I have a big brother who would make dolls’ houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.
When the mumblecore ‘Tiny Furniture’ thing happened, it reminded me of the thing we were trying to do in my little 1995 way.
I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can’t think if I’m wrong I’ll blow $30,000.
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, ‘Stop being rude,’ ‘Stop shouting,’ ‘Stop jumping around on the furniture.’ But ‘Stop showing off’? That’s awful.
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don’t think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.
Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually – way too expensive.
I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.
I’m quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.
I’ve met an 18-month-old baby whose dad says the child likes banging his toy hammer on the furniture when my songs are playing and I’ve met grandmothers who’ve bought all my discs.
When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, ‘You can’t go.’ When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, ‘Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.’
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can’t stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can’t live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff – mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
The Eisenhower Building – the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody’s looking down at their Blackberry. It’s a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it’s this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It’s a fascinating contrast.
You don’t need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting – things you can do yourself – that alone can transform the space.
I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level – they’re very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.
The Box would not play ‘Takin’ These’ because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller’s mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects – furniture, clothes, jewellery – that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don’t garden. And I don’t knit.
I don’t know why modeling worked for me, because I’m short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.
I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
I’ve become obsessed with preserving Shaker furniture. I feel as though every influence in my life, everything I’ve learned and know, all the money I’ve made, has come together to take care of it.
I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
It’s so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn’t matter.
Even one’s own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about one’s home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment – we’re living inside commercials.
I’ve owned more sofas than I’ve had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
I actually have a hard time finding furniture I like.
I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said that, I don’t think the story of my life is in any way remarkable. What is remarkable is how acting opportunities have come my way.
I remember my mom would read the newspaper, and if she saw a place that was cheaper in rent, we were gone. She’d pack everything up, move the furniture and we were out of there.
Speaking as someone who’s played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture. It’s an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world… but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
There’s something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You’re so acquainted with every part of it.
In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.
I’m a very soft-spoken person. I don’t throw furniture. I don’t throw tantrums.
Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
I’d rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.
I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.
To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.
My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.
I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I’d work eight, ten hours a day to support my family – and I’d come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.
