Confidence. If You Have It,

I Am Not Allowed To Be Afraid. My Mother Made Me Like That. As A Child, If I Was Afraid Of The Dark, She Would Lock Me In The Closet. Things Like This. And She Would Talk About The Time She Spent In The Concentration Camp, But Not About Being Afraid, Only About The Good Side Of It.

There's Design And There's Art. Good Design Is Total Harmony. There's No Better Designer Than Nature - If You Look At A Branch Or A Leaf, It's Perfect. It's All Function. Art Is Different. It's About Emotion. It's About Suffering And Beauty - But Mostly Suffering!

I Communicate Mostly Via E-mail And Receive Hundreds Of E-mails A Day.

When You Get Into A Hotel Room, You Lock The Door, And You Know There Is A Secrecy, There Is A Luxury, There Is Fantasy. There Is Comfort. There Is Reassurance.

One Of My Fondest Memories Was When I Was In London As A Young, Independent Businesswoman And Stayed At Claridge's. I Knew I Had Made It. To Me, Claridge's Is The Most Glamourous Hotel In The World; I Regard It As My Home Away From Home. I Am Honoured To Become Part Of The Hotel's Legacy And Rich Design History.