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.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

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.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

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 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.