GenuineFauxInterviews:

Thom Filicia

Thom Filicia

1. Why the "h"?
2. You have an incredible ability to layer styles, textures, patterns, eras, price points. There's so much eye candy. Each visit to your spaces offer yet another discovery or detail. What is your process? Do you build your spaces in the moment or do you sort it out ahead of time? 
3. If a little bit of both, what percentage is completed ahead of time and what is in the moment?  
4. Toilet paper roll over or under?
5. If there could have been only 4 guys on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, who would you have eliminated? I think we're going to say the same person. Let's say it together on the count of three. 1, 2, 3...
6. You use a lot of birds in your work. How would you design a space for a famous bird like Big Bird?
7. You have a pretty impressive resume. Working with the likes of Parish-Hadley, Inc., Robert Metzger Interiors, and Bilhuber & Associates. What's the one most important thing you learned at each of the three firms? Answer both as a designer and then as a professional.  
8. What are your top 3 design eras? 
9. What's the one thing a client could do to make you quit the first day on the job?
10. The story goes that you and your dog were stranded inside your apartment elevator for a hour with another passenger. She was a talent manager, and called you the next day about auditioning for Queer Eye. Have you never taken a set of stairs since? 

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Thom Filicia Style

when greige is great

Greige – a beautiful, textural, unbleached, undyed interior state – has been in vogue for several years now. It's the type of design I love to Pin but don't know how it fits in my every day world. Thus, my appreciation from afar until a recent visit to Acre. Acre is amazing new restaurant by chef Wally Joe. The trip rewarded me with a memorable meal and some design twinspiration. 

Most interiors are about creating a focal point. Interest from nothing. But what happens when you start with something like a beach or mountain home? One of those homes with a view that unrelentingly commands for your attention? 

Well, Acre has one of those views. It just happens to be on the plate in front of you. The next time you have an amazing view or a piece of art that says sit up straight and notice me, think Greige. It's great. 

Entrance at Acre Restaurant

Entry to Acre Restaurant

Front Dining Room

Sunroom Dining Room

Back of Sunroom Dining Room