In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.