Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

- Albert Hadley

Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

- Albert Hadley

Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated pe…

- Albert Hadley

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

- Albert Hadley

Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.

- Albert Hadley

Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s we…

- Albert Hadley

....the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most …

- Albert Hadley

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, m…

- Albert Hadley

Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the pr…

- Albert Hadley