 I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak. |
| 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. |
| I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places. |
| No one ever contributed anything to my designs. |
| Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get. |
| But I think it's important that things endure. |
| 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. |
| Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair. |
| I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future. |
| 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. |
| Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time. |
| I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function. |
| You've got to build a career and a practice. |
| 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. |
| We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards. |
| I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure. |
| I'm pretty much a vegetarian. |
| 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. |
