I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

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

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 was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.