Unless a design is infused with a personality – and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about – it will never, ever have any mystery. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
You’ve got to be the best at what you can do – be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can’t just fiddle around and hope. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
The champagne tastes the same if you’re sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
Everything I’ve ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today – it’s all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I’ve learnt is to look and listen to what’s happening around you. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It’s extraordinary – everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
I’d always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings – and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients – I just felt that I’d discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it – and the rest followed. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn’t everybody? Anouska Hempel Read Quote
Work’s a way of life. It’s the way you live; it’s what you do, and it’s how it is. It’s not work. It’s a lifestyle. It’s life. It’s what one does. You can’t not work. Anouska Hempel Read Quote
