David Pye

Professions :

furniture

Born :

November 18, 1914

Died :

1993

The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

quality risk ideas

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

lashes improvisation design

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

fantasy chance choices