“word to the wise” wednesday: michael formica

I’ve never been a big fan of design-by-committee, no matter what it is.  I remember asking a friend of mine, who was a beauty editor at a magazine, about a new perfume that a designer had come out with–what the scent was like.  She told me it smelled like a focus group.  That said it all.  I like pieces that are the product of a single intelligence, a singular vision.

— Michael Formica (House Beautiful, December/January 2013)