60 Boffo Quotes By - David Linley | Status Free Download
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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.
— David Linley
Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.
— David Linley
I'm quite well known for wearing polo necks. I get them from John Smedley.
— David Linley
Nothing tests a marriage more than insomnia or snoring.
— David Linley
I have bought and sold and bought and sold things that have given me great pleasure over the years, and I find I go through phases of what I'm passionate about. And then the next thing comes along, and so the only way of being able to collect the next one is to sell a few of the other ones.
— David Linley
We are not training crafts people as we used to do. We're not giving people the chance to learn. Education has become very academic. There's nothing wrong with academic for some people, but not all.
— David Linley
There's a real hunger to understand where objects come from, how artists show their understanding of materials. And there's something fascinating about watching people work, whether it's someone engraving a gun or sewing beautiful clothes together. I know that myself; I'll make a piece of furniture and feel the wood's grain talking to me.
— David Linley
I love Burgundy but my favourite is a Bordeaux - Chateau Leoville-Barton.
— David Linley
Never bring an umbrella to the country - wear a tweed cap.
— David Linley
A lot of the design courses in schools and colleges don't incorporate very much making, and a lot of the making courses incorporate too much technology and computers.
— David Linley
In an ideal world, you would have his-and-hers bathrooms and his-and-hers dressing rooms, complete with a single bed where the Mrs. need not be woken up when there's a 7 o'clock flight to catch.
— David Linley
I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design.
— David Linley
Bedales was perfect for my sister and me. Very open. Very few rules. No uniforms. Co-educational. And very little of 'You have to do this like this.' You very much controlled your education.
— David Linley
I went to church with my grandmother every Sunday.
— David Linley
America is wonderful.
— David Linley
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.
— David Linley
Personally, I find the world of memorabilia fascinating: how people get so focused on one genre, music, or person.
— David Linley
I'm a very methodical cook - it appeals to the logical side of my brain.
— David Linley
I love partridge and duck casseroles, and have been known to hunt my own game. It's important to eat off the land where possible.
— David Linley
My design teachers were teaching us how to mass-manufacture; how to create something, but it's not lasting - it's always about the next trend, it's the next thing.
— David Linley
In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.
— David Linley
I used to sit and draw in the evening with a couple of crates of beer. That makes the ideas flow.
— David Linley
My daughter makes great jewellery and my son wants to pursue engineering. They've both been indoctrinated by the school of Linley. People want to get back to painting, building, exploring what their creative sides can do - it's something all human beings crave.
— David Linley
There was a time when craft used to mean anything but the considered, stylish or academic. It was a term of derision. The 'craft fair' on the village green was to be avoided.
— David Linley
Our chief aim is to make beautiful things that will last forever.
— David Linley
If you cut me open, you would find bits of me looking at things with an aesthetic eye, also with a historical eye. But mostly at the way things have transported themselves through time.
— David Linley
You can never split yourself from the family you were born into.
— David Linley
I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe the things I had seen... Unusual furniture always seemed easier to remember than other things.
— David Linley
London is a series of villages, really. I like that.
— David Linley
It's extraordinary how a physical disability makes people think that somebody is frail.
— David Linley
Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.
— David Linley
On a fine day, I'm a keen cyclist.
— David Linley
There was a submarine that I desperately wanted to buy in the toy shop. My father said, 'No, you go and build it yourself.'
— David Linley
I remember my father making many things. Once we made a shed, and a man in the village came along to help. After a couple of glasses of beer, he said, 'Give me a tape measure and I'll make it by eye,' and the result was so beautiful.
— David Linley
I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and beauty.
— David Linley
For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
— David Linley
I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of its own.
— David Linley
I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.
— David Linley
I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service.
— David Linley
My father's rooms, as a child, were a very exciting place to be. Not only because of the beautiful models who were coming to be photographed for Vogue or The Sunday Times but also because of the very avant-garde furniture that he had made. He made designs for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 at Caernarfon Castle.
— David Linley
I'm a maker, not a designer.
— David Linley
I reckon if you stick to the same thing every day for lunch when you are traveling, you know where you are. And it is one less decision to make.
— David Linley
I like to say we can make anything in wood.
— David Linley
A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they've inspired people to make things - that inspiration would be a great legacy.
— David Linley
Food and wine are my extravagances.
— David Linley
Life, work, money - everything is such a battle. It's just nice to sit down at home, look at one thing, and think, 'Hmmm. A man made that.'
— David Linley
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.
— David Linley
Beeswax is always preferable to chemical polishes because it does not destroy the natural surface of wood.
— David Linley
The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.
— David Linley
Beautiful engineering always held a fascination for me.
— David Linley
I loved the idea of evolving traditional methods and design to make products that last but are also relevant for the modern age.
— David Linley
I don't use my title.
— David Linley
We are a modern family who need to live in a certain way.
— David Linley
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.
— David Linley
Most craft is, you know, terrible, absolutely terrible, so I don't like the word, or the word 'artisan' either.
— David Linley
I'm extremely proud of my relations and my heritage and my family. That's one side of my life, and my work is the other side of my life, and... I've always tried to keep them, you know apart.
— David Linley
We had an immensely happy childhood.
— David Linley
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.
— David Linley
Since childhood, Claridge's has always been a very special place for me. I associate it with celebrations, happy times.
— David Linley
I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it out, making it myself, finishing it, polishing it, and delivering it, and writing the invoice and writing the letters, doing the books, doing the telephone bill and everything else like that.
— David Linley
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