Genevieve Gorder Quotes
I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.
So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.
I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.
It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.
There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.
I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
