David Linley Quotes

David Linley

Profession : Royalty

Birth : November 3, 1961

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

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.

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I don't use my title.

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Our chief aim is to make beautiful things that will last forever.

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We are a modern family who need to live in a certain way.

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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.

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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.

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There was a submarine that I desperately wanted to buy in the toy shop. My father said, 'No, you go and build it yourself.'

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You can never split yourself from the family you were born into.

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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.

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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.

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Most craft is, you know, terrible, absolutely terrible, so I don't like the word, or the word 'artisan' either.

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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.

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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.

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Since childhood, Claridge's has always been a very special place for me. I associate it with celebrations, happy times.

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We had an immensely happy childhood.

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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.

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My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.

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We should promote and celebrate and enthuse the artisans and craftsmen of Great Britain.

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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.

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