And it feels natural and human in terms of the height of the ceiling, the width, the

length. It all seems to come together. That was a teaching moment for me.

Absolutely, and it opens very beautifully to the

rest of the garden.

And I designed it so that you could enter from the front door, but actually I learned a

lot from Feng Shui, where you don’t see the view immediately. You don’t want your chi

to flood out the windows to the view. So, you come in, you stop, you see the entryway

and it’s more of a formal entryway with a console and the mirror, and then you come

around that, and then it appears in front of you – this magnificent view.

That’s a lovely view. I’m glad that we got to enjoy

the swans a little bit today.

I know! It’s like, cue central casting. Suddenly, the swans and the geese appear. You

have a good spirit about you. You brought it all.

You’ve created this wonderful sense of formality, but

there is a lot of wild that does come in, a little piece of

Eden. It feels abundant.

I think that also the property is the definition of elegance. There’s comfort, there’s ease.

Once again, I said there’s proportion in the property, there’s a story behind everything,

there’s romance. I mean how can you have both a home and a garden without a

sense of romance? I love symmetry, and it holds things together. I love form, but also, of

course, ultimately harmony.