Words matter. These are the best Genevieve Gorder Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I’m a designer, I love it, and I haven’t worked this hard to do bad work.
Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.
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 think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
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 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.
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven’t found with any interviewer.
I’m so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
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.
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you’re making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It’s not just an aesthetic decoration.
And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it’s all done. It really breaks you.
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn’t like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
There’s a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
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.
The birth of any show is always a rough one.
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.