Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.