You are what you pretend to be.

- Stephen Bayley

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any mor…

- Stephen Bayley

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

- Stephen Bayley

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purch…

- Stephen Bayley

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

- Stephen Bayley

Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apoth…

- Stephen Bayley

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

- Stephen Bayley

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

- Stephen Bayley

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

- Stephen Bayley