«Design doesn’t exist for its own sake – much to the disappointment of unreformed Modernists and some curators of white cubic museum. It exists, instead, in real lives, real situations, real places, and real time.»
Nigel Whiteley, Design History or Design Studies, in “Design Issues”, vol. 11, 1995, 1, Spring, pp. 38-42: 38.

photo: Alessandro Mendini’s Proust Chair, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris