Edward Emory "Ed" Warnerwas a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1912 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He batted right-handed and threw left-handed... (wikipedia)
We didn't want a trophy home. We wanted people to be invited into the house to see all the wondrous things, features that the public doesn't get to see.
I had sat around campfires all my life, since I was 10 years old. I wanted the sound of water.
This is a place to hold conversations. We had eight or 10 people in here for New Year's, drinking port and smoking cigars.
The intent of the house was to be an urban villa. A house that has interior privacy, both indoors and outdoors. A central courtyard with three sides. A place we could do a lot of entertaining.