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…

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

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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…

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

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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.

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

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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.

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...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…

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Rooms should be timeless.

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