So why does it happen?\u00a0 You’re really sophisticated; you have great friends, you like good food, you buy nice clothes, what’s the problem?\u00a0 It’s not personal!\u00a0 Design is a combination of talent and knowhow, and I’m\u00a0not at all sure in what order or emphasis.\u00a0 To design is to break down the universe into patterns, textures, colors, and mass.\u00a0 I do think there’s a huge spatial component that is innate;\u00a0 good designers actually feel space-that makes it easy for them to understand\u00a0 patterns and mass.\u00a0 Textures and colors are something that I think people can be trained to think about, see, feel and play with.<\/p>\n
Good design, to me, is all about the working with the modulation of various elements.\u00a0 For instance, understanding how large furniture needs to be in a room, the rightness of it.\u00a0 Interesting design is when you you can manipulate the elements so they are pleasing and then\u00a0\u00a0push them around to make something unexpected, or personal, or new.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As with any of the arts, and I do believe that designing can be counted as one, you need to know the classics of the discipline;\u00a0a painter needs to know art history from the very beginning to have to references be second nature.\u00a0 No design is brand new.\u00a0 There are always elements taken from before and recombined with new ideas.\u00a0 But design looks dry and hollow if it’s used without a knowledge of its past links.\u00a0 Palladian\u00a0 Windows in McMansion construction look ridiculous (and sound pretentious)\u00a0 if used out of context of Palladio’s original intention to create an architectural tempo.<\/p>\n
From what I’ve seen, bad design happens to all these nice people because people think that creating a comfortable home is something that should come naturally.\u00a0 Particularly now, when there’s all this self help in the form of cable shows and shelter magazine, homeowners must feel they have all the tools they need.<\/p>\n
But they dont’!\u00a0 They’re not professionals.\u00a0 If you have a legal problem, would you consider handling it yourself?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 A medical problem?\u00a0 A plumbing problem?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I rest my case….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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