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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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