“I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or...” — Aerin Lauder Quote

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower books. Now I love flowers on my night table and on my desk.

Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.

The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.

I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.