“ An accomplished interior designer tends to wear a number of different hats. They can be at times an architect, a decorator, a builder, a negotiator, an accountant and, on the odd occasion, a marriage counsellor. But on almost every project conceivable, the one thing a designer must be is an editor, since, at its core, successful interior design is about knowing what to add and what to remove, what to preserve and what to change, what to choose from a virtual infinity of design choices, and how to bring those choices together so they sing.”

Alexander Fitzgerald, The White Book, Volume 16