Stephen Bayley

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#am #anything #arrive #character #doing

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#antiques #certain #i #interest #like

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#grenades #hand #having #i #into

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#atmosphere #born #britain #continuous #decline

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#find #furniture #made #sometimes #than

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#advanced #am #argue #both #cooking

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#both #manners #more #myth #reality

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#any #getting #getting older #models #more

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#adapt #assumption #changing #circumstances #deny

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#evolutionary #finish #hope #house #merely