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SAVOIR FAIRE
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
William Morris
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
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"We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited for the little man in the street."
Alvar Aalto
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
Charles Eames
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"Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufactures."
Josiah Wedgewood
Hill House Ladder Black chairs
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
"Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but 'art' is the flower which embodies its meaning."
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Oriental Poppy Lamp
Clara Driscoll for Tiffany
"I think Google should be like a Swiss army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere."
Marissa Mayer
Former Google executive
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
James Dewar
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
Edwin H. Land
S Chair
Verner Panton
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Juicy Salif Citrus Squeezer
Philippe Starck for Alessi
"It took me years to work out what was so special about Vuitton. But when you go to the workshops outside Paris and see how everything is crafted, it's pretty impressive."
Marc Jacobs
Fashion Designer
"The most durable raw materials are not cement, wood, stone, iron, steel, aluminium, pottery or glass: but art."
Gio Ponti
"Good design is making something that is intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
Dieter Rams
"I think it is really important to design things with a kind of personality."
Marc Newson
by the History of Art department (University of Malta)
coordinated by Dr. Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, artistic director of the Mdina Biennale 2015
Produced & Presented by Melanie Farrugia