“Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something...” — Charles Pollock Quote

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.

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

Design is thinking made visual.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

I like to wear things that don't need ironing. It seems a fundamental design flaw when clothing needs ironing. There are loads of fabrics these days that don't need ironing, so I stick to those.