But I think it's important that things endure.
Robin Day

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
Robin Day

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
Robin Day

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.
Robin Day

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

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
Robin Day

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

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
Robin Day

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

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.
Robin Day

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
Robin Day

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

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.
Robin Day

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

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
Robin Day

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
Robin Day

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.
Robin Day

You've got to build a career and a practice.
Robin Day