I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

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.

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

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

No one chair should be isolated.