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

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.

You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.