Tim Ross

So although, of course, John is the architect, the house is absolutely theirs in every way.

It has been chosen by them themselves.

not by him, and he's the great orchestrator here, but it is a joint.

Their life seems to me to be one huge joint project.

It's a really interesting idea that you can be driving something, but you can't do it alone.

There's this great moment, this beautiful, beautiful profiled handrail, which is sitting atop this ceramic terracotta balustrade.

And the profile is like slightly dished.

He's saying, oh, that's just going to be the best marble run.

You know, I asked him what happens when the grandkids come over and they discover that.

Because at the bottom of the staircase, there's a terracotta floor.

So the marble would kind of hit the floor and crack a tile, you know, which wouldn't be so good.

And John just said, yeah, I'm just going to, I think I might kind of design some kind of billiard kind of corner pocket to go at the bottom of something.

And that's the point.

He gets an idea in his head and he makes the most beautiful object out of it that deals with the situation.

The house is full of that.

I love that.

that has that level of beauty and we can all of us invest in a beautifully made chair you invest in your pot you know we all do that and you can enjoy the energy of it and like john does you know i i have pots at home with a little bit of paper in them inside the pot just to so i can remember who made it you know i mean you keep the little label of the maker and that kind of thing particularly if you've met them and john's brilliant because he knows all these amazing makers

So he can like, oh, I need a new toilet roll holder.

Well, it needs to be this shape and it needs to go around the corner there and fit underneath that.

And so he'll design it because he's a brilliant architect and his drawings are beautiful.