Lonny Loves

Q&A with Nate Berkus

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Name: Nate Berkus
Born: 9.17.1971 – Orange County, Calif.
Resides in: New York City
Occupation: Interior decorator, talk show host
Best known for: Being the The Oprah Winfrey Show's go-to design guy and hosting The Nate Berkus Show
Books published: The Things That Matter (Spiegel & Grau, 2012 – on Amazon) Home Rules: Transform the Place You Live into a Place You'll Love (Hyperion Books, 2005 – on Amazon)
Website: www.nateberkus.com
Little known facts: He played himself on two Day of Our Lives episodes in 2011 and was an executive producer of The Help.

Antique or modern?
 Mixed, but mainly antiques
 
City, suburb or country? 
City and beach

 What's your favorite color?
 Army green and pale grey

 Favorite materials or textures? 
Linen and wool
 
What is your favorite interior design-related word?
 "Situation"
 
Does your home look like the one you grew up in? 
Not at all, my mother's home is bright and floral

 Does a room need a view? 
Always

 Favorite designer or architect?
 Jacques Grange

 Which design blog, website, TV show or magazine would you be lost without? 
Spanish AD

 What are the qualities you most admire in a room?
 Layers

What is a dirty word in your house?
 Disorganized

 Design rule you like to break? 
Handcrafted things from traveling mixed with fine furniture and paintings

 What’s your favorite room in the house?
My library

 What is your most treasured possession?
 A pair of hand woven photographs made by hand by my late partner, Fernando Bengoechea  

What do you wish you could do without?
 Carbs
 
Have you ever had a change of heart about an object or a style?
 All the time, I think its the natural evolution of a decorator

 If you could live in one historical figure’s house, whose would it be? 
Carlos de Bestegui's Chateau de Groussay in France

To which country would you move for the design?
 France