Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank.

Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

....the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.