I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
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 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.
I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.
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.
