It’s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don’t, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened… and it happened because of a beautiful idea. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I’m always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
I’m a designer, I love it, and I haven’t worked this hard to do bad work. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
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. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn’t and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
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. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
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. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven’t found with any interviewer. Genevieve Gorder Read Quote
