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.

Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.

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

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

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

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

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.