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1. The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
2. The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.
3. The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.
4. My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
5. Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.
6. I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.
7. Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.
8. I need art around me always.
9. Besides almonds or granola, I don’t eat a lot during the day — juicing is what gives me energy.
10. Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.
11. By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
12. The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.
13. I’ve never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I’ve seen is ‘Project Runway,’ which is great, but I don’t watch television.
14. I’m not the bake-sale-mom type — though once in a while, I’ll make challah French toast for my sons.
15. I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone’s gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
16. I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.
17. Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.
18. Everything I commission — whether it is for me or for a client’s home or for a hotel or office — is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
19. My motto in life is ‘Take risks;’ you don’t have a voice if you don’t. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That’s what life’s all about.
20. Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.