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Robin Day
British
Journalist
About the author
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Nature
#Rain
I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Hope
#People
#Future
I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Now
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Time
#Morality
#Commerce
But I think it's important that things endure.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
I'm pretty much a vegetarian.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Pretty
Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Work
Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Successful
We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Responsibility
#Energy
No one ever contributed anything to my designs.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Evil
#Idea
#Advertising
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Work
#First
I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Time
You've got to build a career and a practice.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Career
#Practice
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
Robin Day,
British
Journalist
#Man
#Talking
#Machines