Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun some joy some real satisfaction that day is a loss.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.