I do not like being in front of the camera..

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons..

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design..

I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious..

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener..

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue..

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..

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment..

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle..

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….

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture..

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..

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color..

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them..

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..

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute..

My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!.

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..

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s..

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and m….

I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. ….