Nate Berkus may be a TV personality, author, and celebrity, but he also feels it's important that everyone realize that he is, first and foremost, a designer. "Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work," Berkus explained in an interview with the New York Daily News. "It's what I love."
As the Daily News pointed out, Berkus brings a strong and well-defined design ethos to his projects, based on the premise that a person's "home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be." That's why he advises his clients to trust their hearts more than their eyes when it comes to selecting objects to fill a home, it's important to seek out "things we care about, that have meaning."
That, he explained, is reflective of his design philosophy, which he described as being "part psychology, part sociology and part magic." The objects within a home, he said, need to be more than just aesthetically pleasing, but should also contribute to telling the "story of where these people have been, who they have loved and what they value."
