From Deborah Copaken Kogan’s Lessons from a Surprise Visit to Richard Rogers’s House, recently published in the New Yorker
How does a world-famous architect organize life’s minutiae? One drawer, I vowed to myself. Just one. I randomly chose a drawer and pulled it open. In my memory of this moment, the chorus of “Ode to Joy” rang out and rays of light burst forth from the chosen drawer.
Good design doesn’t get in the way of living, it enhances it.