So here is the thing, a television show about helping homeowners fall in love with their space again can't be easy for a designer. A limited budget, time constraints, and confused clients sound less than appealing to me. Not for Genevieve. She loves the quick paced, dynamic environment that allows her and her small team to imagine anything and make it real. She thrives on pushing herself to new limits, despite the quick turn around and credits a very strong creative team. "It's something that can't be done when you are working on a large project for a firm", she says of the incredible tangible and emotional reward of pulling together a beautiful interior in just a few days.
So where does all this inspiration come from? Well, Genevieve is a well travelled, barefoot people loving type, so it's no surprise that she lets her senses guide her, through culture, or art, or even a humbling experience, "It inherently comes naturally, It's how you look at the world", she says. True, No? It's fascinating to learn about the simplest object or experience that inspired a major project or artwork.
So what excites her about design today? That its not disposable. That marriage of old and new is here to stay. 'Recreating old designs with what we have now", she says Adding modern colours to old pieces, and boy is she really loving that brass is back. I had to ask,what trend she would like to see banished forever. "Enough blue and brown". Yeah, I am kind of done with that one too.
Dear Genevieve, Season IV
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Beginning January 4
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