David Linley Quotes

David Linley

Profession : Royalty

Birth : November 3, 1961

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

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

Personally, I find the world of memorabilia fascinating: how people get so focused on one genre, music, or person.

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 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

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

I'm a very methodical cook - it appeals to the logical side of my brain.

David Linley

Food and wine are my extravagances.

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

I love Burgundy but my favourite is a Bordeaux - Chateau Leoville-Barton.

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

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

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

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

In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.

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

I used to sit and draw in the evening with a couple of crates of beer. That makes the ideas flow.

David Linley

Beautiful engineering always held a fascination for me.

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