He said: "It's better than being sat at home watching TV, or being out walking the dog.
Even his Diwans, the sofas draped with Turkish carpets that he devised as the seating for a cinema in the Documenta IX exhibition in Kassel, Germany, in 1992, are better suited to be sprawled than sat upon, as you can discover for yourself by trying them out at Inverleith House.
Lawyers might like nothing better than to sit down with a cuppa and a volume of Halsbury's Statutes.
"Nothing feels better than to sit in one of Francis's grass-roofed hales and just enjoy the time," he said.
Angelo is a generous host and a dazzling smile is never far from his lips; indeed, he loves nothing better than to sit around a table with friends and laugh at life, which is fitting in a place built for pleasure.
Likewise, traditional "e-tailers" know better than to sit on the sidelines when a new disruptive technology threatens to encroach on their turf, and do to them what they did to bricks and mortar.
Moreover, it is better to stand than sit, to be closer to the front of your table than way back behind it, or even better out in front of it, and to be ready to talk to people as they pass by, holding out an open comic.
Auberon Alexander Waugh, editor and writer, born November 17 1939; died January 16 2001 'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore'.
AS entertainment, it has faced its share of criticism: that it is all technological gimmickry, a useless diversion for people with nothing better to do than sit for hours in front of a screen.
