MASTER OF DESIGN DVD:1

10 profiles on one DVD

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PARIS

It is really easy to design for people like Rupert Murdoch, Karl Largerfeld, and Mark Jacob because they have a strong personality and a strong idea of what they want. They know my work and we work to combine my philosophy with their space. I met Calvin Klein once or twice and we work mainly by fax. He writes me a letter, asking questions and I reply 'O.K. This yes, this no, etc'.

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LONDON

I thought if you could dress a 4 poster bed, you could probably sort of have more fun with something that moved around a bit. It is part of a lifestyle and architectural lifestyle is something that I am really all about, at the end of the day without realising. It has something to do with fashion, food, gardens, it is a mixture of what your life it about.

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PARIS

Real talent is a mix. It has very much to do with who they are inside. Do they have a very strong nature. Can they take a terrible risk, can they take a terrible failure. Can they accept that the major lady on earth who may be the one who writes in Herald Tribune decides your collection is very poor, and what happens in your house because you did not make it that time. Can you live without a lot of money? Can you wait for things to come to you? Can you be patient? Not selling your name partly or completely. It is as important as talent.

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SYDNEY

I am looking at what it feels to be an occupant of a space, a transition between inside and out. It is so subtle that in many cases it almost does not exist and also you have this extension of space out into something beyond, whether it be a view, a courtyard or a landscape.

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NEW YORK

People who have made a lot of money are very intelligent, and people who are very intelligent are also very quick. People come here, we work, and sometimes they leave as a different person.

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SYDNEY

I have very great questions about what is creativity. I think that it is a process not a result. For example we didn't create the atomic bomb, we discovered the factors that made the bomb. Gehry's Bilbao is a path of discovery. It had the potential to exist, he sought its existence. He made a path to that existence. Art is discovery. Creativity is the most misused word. I see a person is able to discover and has the process and the wherewithall to discover the existence of something that wasn't obvious previously.

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PARIS

The strength of the American designers is that as they don't have their own style, they freely mix different styles with a very personal touch. My quest is a bit different, I try to give a modern feel to something that is often considered old fashioned. Today young people find the 18th century style very much out of date. Maybe it is because they remember the interiors of their parents who displayed it in a old fashioned way.

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LONDON

The references are the space and above all the client. Usually it is the fulfillment of an aspiration and the creativity that they are entrusting to us. They might themselves be very creative, but not have the time.

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MILAN

The trend is not to fill up houses as much. If I am thinking of a house, I am thinking of a structure and since I've absorbed the Renaissance with all the proportions, the symmetry, the dimensions of the windows and how much light there should be and how high the ceiling has to be in proportion to the width and the length of the room, I can create a shell which has a nice harmony itself before you fill it up.

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SYDNEY

I come sort of shaken from the tree of Lawrence Knoll . Florence and Hans Knoll established Knoll in the 40's in the United States. She studied under Mies at RMIT, grew up with Saarinen in Cranbrooke. Hans Knoll is German and went to the U.S. in the 40's and established a furniture company and they met and she organised that the furniture that they would manufacture was designed by her contemporaries - Montoya, Saarinen, Van Der Rohr, Rissem...

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