David Linley

Royalty

1961-11-03

Quotes by David Linley

• Nothing tests a marriage more than insomnia or snoring.

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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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• 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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• There was a submarine that I desperately wanted to buy in the toy shop. My father said, 'No, you go and build it yourself.'

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• Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India.

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• The workshop to me always means great atmosphere, working, smell of wood, dust and, at the end of the day, you've created something.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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