Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting..

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself..

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason..

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married ….

...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wan….

Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to se….

It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. Fr….

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever..

Rooms should be timeless..

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous..