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A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.