Mohd Book
Portrait of Home
“There may be no need to bother Jane Austen (starting with her “Sense and Sensibility”) and the portraits of her heroines to remember that, instead of indulging in romantic sentimentalism, it is far better to analyze feelings in the light of reason, always reckoning with reality.
Yet a home, that place in which one lives or works, in which one nurtures one’s affections, welcomes guests or carries out one’s professional commitments, will always be the sum of these complimentary values: sense and sensibility. And the winning recipe for the ideal place, where the useful and the beautiful are joined in perfect balance, results from a quest for consistency between these elements.”