#house

I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#buy #course #fashion #fell #first

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#apart #corridor #ever #found #hardly

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#creation #freed #houses #idea #mean

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#buildings #cities #houses #like #lined

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#houses #interior #into #japanese #melts

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crowded #difficult #establish #had #houses

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#central #extraordinary #furniture #had #hearth

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#certain #flats #floor #following #gained

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#approach #chiefly #demonstrate #french #houses

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#became #characteristic #dwelling #form #hall