Write the book you'd want to read.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

Our passion is and should always be to make life better.

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.