Dishware Before Creating This Line (2011/12/20)
   Did you know much about dishware before creating this line? I have collected a lot of plates and dishes through the years. Catalina pottery is my favorite. What I like about Catalina pottery is it is very sturdy and simple. Many years ago in New York City, when I lived there, I collected Fiesta. Those colors are just, like, in your face.
   What’s appealing right now is not to punch it up with a lot of color. It came really from Catalina and then morphed into something even a little more modern. You were going to design a collection of furniture a few years back. What happened with that? One of the reasons is you have to know a little bit more than just venturing out. I had no idea what I was getting into. None.
   I had a fantasy several years ago that I would create houses that we would produce in a community — these new Spanish homes that would follow the principles of what I was into. Of course, nothing came of it. I have a lot of ideas. Like we all do. But if someone would buy these dishes, I’d love to do more. It gives me an opportunity to look, see, explore — all the things I’m really interested in. How did you get interested in design? I’ve always been a person who buys shelter magazines. But I had no knowledge whatsoever. This only really emerged when I bought my first Spanish home. Well, actually, I bought a Lloyd Wright first. I bought the Ramon Novarro home in the Hollywood Hills.
   If you have a family, it’s not as easy to live in a Lloyd Wright house. They are beautiful. But they have very, very small bedrooms. That’s not to say a family can’t live there, for God’s sake. It would be a great pleasure to live there. Which I did enjoy. But I’m a person who likes to keep moving. It’s a good excuse: “Well, I have a family now. I better get a Spanish home.” Where are you living these days? Right now, I don’t have a home. I’m renting. But I’m going to buy a piece of land and build once in my life. I don’t know if I can do it, but I’m going to try. I’m afraid of spaces that are blank. Like a lot of novice types who are aficionados of architecture, once I see a building I understand what I can do with it. But to just see raw space is terrifying.
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