"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Eliel Saarinen

Comments

[AndrewK]

But don't forget to consider the soft fleshy objects that might want to use the chair, room, house, environment, city etc.

[Limepickle]

Always one of my favorites. Being an egd designer, what I like about this is that the quote, very simply and acurately, sums up the relationships between product, interior, architect, environmental and masterplanning designers.