The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.