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.

I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.

So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.

To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.

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.