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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

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

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.