Because Albert Einstein, who I had on my wall,as a undergrad he meant so much to me, not only we both play the violin, the most brilliant mind and intelligence in the 20th century.
We had brilliant graduates coming out of places like the Cambridge computing laboratory, he said, but that supply could dry up, and we needed a wider hinterland of skilled people.
' We may not have been the greatest creators in Europe, but we were brilliant editors of all the influences, bringing the functional and the beautiful back from Italy to our gardens and interiors, adding our own practical dynamic to French clothes.