#y

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#breaks #complex #deep #done #goodbye

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#always #because #design #frustration #how

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#bad #beautiful #because #both #cliche

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#audience members #before #being #cool #couple

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#get #instead #lot #more #neighbors

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#actually #ago #create #had #half

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. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#convinced #decoration #design #having #how

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#beautiful things #contribute #country #forget #i

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. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#bedding #book #district #end #i

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

— Genevieve Gorder

#bite #giving #hosts #i #interested