Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.