I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

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.

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.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

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.