Good Quotes: First Impressions

“The first impression of a room depends upon the walls. In fact, rooms are good and bad, agreeable or ugly in exact accordance with the wall-quality and treatment. No richness of floor covering, draperies, or furniture can minimize their influence.” - Candace Wheeler – Principles of Home Decoration

Comments (2)

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that's not true. Not at all, actually. I've seen rooms I thought were pretty fabulous and later realized the had hideous peeling paint that was somehow concealed by the rest of the elements in the room.

It might be I don't have a trained eye.

However, I find her lack of qualifications and dead certainty kind of charming. Did she write that in the fifties or before when experts had such power?

posted by Modma on 2007-01-11 14:40:45

Candace Wheeler (1827-1923) was America's first important woman textile and interior designer, who co-founded the interior-decorating firm of Tiffany & Wheeler and decorated the Veterans' Room of the Seventh Regiment Armory, the Madison Square Theatre, The Union League Club, the George Kemp house, and the drawing room of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II house. More information about her storied life via the link above (her name).

posted by gregory on 2007-01-12 10:03:58