The World Motivation
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
“I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.”
— Jean Nouvel · Apartment
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
My grandmother was an artist and did enameling. She had a little apartment, and in her tiny little kitchen, she had a kiln. We used to sit there when I was six years old and she'd let me choose the colors and bake the pieces and create a necklace, or a ring, or a little piece of art.
I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible.
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
We used to hang out in my studio apartment, play music and dream about being rock stars.
I like English parks.
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.