No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.