Sentence examples for a design statement from inspiring English sources

When you want to turn bookshelves from simple storage into a design statement, our designers advise, "looking beyond books for creating a bookshelf that reflects the personality of your home and your life". Fall and back-to-school season just scream plaid, so why not embrace it?

"And at the end of the day, as everyone in Los Angeles knows, you're only as good as your lighting". CREATED AS an alternative to cookie-cutter corporate extended-stay hotels, Palihouse Holloway in West Hollywood makes a design statement starting in the lobby, which designer Avi Brosh says is evocative of New York bars and French bistros.

Not every kitchen needs to be a design statement.

I don't want a design statement or an abstract objet.

well, this is practical furniture, not a design statement.

The interior is less successful as a design statement, with too many materials and textures competing for attention.

Rooms Hotel makes a bold design statement with a colourful conversion of a former publishing house in the arty Vera neighbourhood (from £100, designhotels.com).

It also transforms a common medical device into a fetching design statement.

"It is not a grand design statement," says Gehry. "From the start, Mark wanted a space that was unassuming, matter-of-fact and cost effective.

To Steven, an architect, this model for affordable housing — a tough pair of stacked boxes, sheathed in corrugated metal — was a bold design statement.

Either way, he added, it's not the best place to make a big design statement.