Stephen Gardiner Quotes about House

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.