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