Inspired with Alexa von Tobel
00:45:52 · Nate Berkus, Alexa von Tobel
You know, the people that just kind of gather all these great images and have a beautiful homepage, but have never installed a room, never faced what it is to manage a project. But overall, I'm bring it on. Like, let's get everybody talking. [00:46:13] S1: I I like... I I love it. And actually, I... You kinda just painted a picture in my mind of we really can democratize. You know, design doesn't need to be reserved for the top 10%. Like, it should be something that everybody... And I know that you've always been about that, by the way. Have, like, your target line. I mean, I'd like... I have consumed so much of what you've created for people, But but I think you're right on that. Actually, one of the questions I I was gonna add. So, obviously, with ShopMy, a company I know you know well, the podcast, and I... You know, you've been involved with them. It... The future of cur... Curation is what's happening. I think there's an explosion of more products just in general. Right? You... When you and I were growing up, maybe there were 10 beverage products. Now there's 10,000. If we were gonna go buy something from a home store, there were maybe 50 big home stores, but now because of Etsy and... There's 50,000 decisions you could make. And I think curating through that is hard. And at its core, you're a curator. Just how do you think about the future of curation right now? Because at its core, you are effortless at, as as you said earlier. How do you think about curation and how that's evolving?
00:47:40 · Nate Berkus, Alexa von Tobel
[00:47:40] S0: I think it's fascinating in that listen, the challenge I have around curation, and I am part of ShopMy and I take that super seriously. I review every product that's going on my ShopMy page. It's literally all the things I use and wear and put on my face and my hair and when I find something I get excited to add it to ShopMy, an obscure Portuguese cotton company that make car coats that fit everybody that I wear almost every day, that goes on my shop my page. I still have a little bit of a reservation around me as a person in design and in home choosing to share what moisturizer I use. It still feels a little bit weird for me personally. My team is like, What are you talking about? Move on. So I do it, but I think what, I would prefer it to be a little bit more directive. I would prefer there to be a few more guardrails on it. I don't really care. Kim Kardashian is a brilliant businesswoman and an attorney and a really smart investor in many ways, and she knows vintage, and she's an auction junkie. I'd like to know that from her, but I don't know if I care what socks she's wearing. Yep, yep. Know? So Her [00:49:19] S1: could be guardrails, I like that. [00:49:20] S0: Yeah, that's what it feels like to me. I just, I don't know that ate a burrito on Instagram the other day because my team was like, go to this burrito place. And I was like, I'm only doing this because I really want a burrito.
00:49:20 · Nate Berkus, Alexa von Tobel
[00:49:20] S0: Yeah, that's what it feels like to me. I just, I don't know that ate a burrito on Instagram the other day because my team was like, go to this burrito place. And I was like, I'm only doing this because I really want a burrito. [00:49:34] S1: I'm like, I love that. I totally love that. And I was really giggling a little bit that your colleagues were like, Nate Nate, it's normal for people to share their their cream. [00:49:46] S0: Yeah. No. I mean, were like, just move on. And I I was like, okay. Alright. Okay. I believe you guys. [00:49:53] S1: Nate, one question I wanna ask before we move to kind of a quick fire round, and I have some questions I'm pumped to ask you. What if you step back? What do you think to date would be one of the biggest pinch me moments in your career? Because you've done... I mean, you are truly multi hyphenate. You've written books. You've had shows. You have lines. You have... You've decorated everything that matters. You've gotten every design award that exists. For you, what was a pinch me moment? [00:50:20] S0: They're all. I mean that sincerely. I still have them all the time. And I think when you stop having pinch me moments, you're just dialing it in. They are so love [00:50:33] S1: good Nate.
00:50:33 · Alexa von Tobel, Nate Berkus
[00:50:33] S1: good Nate. [00:50:33] S0: They are though. I mean, that is true. I you know, there's the big ones that we can talk about. Oprah grabbing my hand on my third show that I'd done and saying Nate Berkus, remember his name. I mean, I'll never forget that moment. But they're all pinch me moments. I was in Boston meeting with a company the other day and I met all their buyers and all their merchandisers and everybody that makes that company run and all the creatives there. And I was like, this is brilliant. I'm sitting at the front of a boardroom with a monitor behind me playing a thing my team made that I got to consult on and I'm sharing with this massive, massive retailer all of my views and ideas visually and explaining why, it's all a pinch me moment. And you know what else is a pinch me moment? Laying in bed next to my son and listening to him read out loud a book, a Roald Dahl that I loved in second grade. It's all good. [00:51:42] S1: You have an infectious zest for life at its core. You ooze passion and creativity, and you have a spring in your step, quite literally. [00:51:52] S0: It's fun. So do you. You know what, I think that's one of the things that connected us so many years ago. [00:51:58] S1: Nate, quick fire round. [00:52:00] S0: So I'm ready. [00:52:01] S1: What is your wildest on camera moment? [00:52:03] S0: Wow, woah. [00:52:04] S1: What was your weirdest wildest
00:52:04 · Alexa von Tobel, Nate Berkus
[00:52:04] S1: What was your weirdest wildest [00:52:07] S0: Wildest on camera moment. Okay, this isn't quick fire and I apologize, but I have to answer this really, I have to answer this way because I have a deep thought about this, okay? [00:52:17] S1: Go for it. [00:52:19] S0: I haven't had one and I'll tell you why, and I'll tell you why I think YouTube is the future of TV. The gatekeeping that goes on between the talent and the audience by the networks, by production, by editors, by the whole machine is almost over. And so Jeremiah and I have had fights on TV that don't make it on. We've had the craziest bloopers and the funniest things and also real situations that don't make it on. [00:52:55] S1: You're like, it makes it on. [00:53:01] S0: In YouTube, it makes it on. There is nothing between you and the people interested in what you are doing and what you have to say. That's it. For good or bad, by the way. Take that anyway. It can't all be great. So... But I [00:53:17] S1: love it. I love it. That was a great answer. Nate, what is a design era that you'd love to live in? [00:53:23] S0: Oh, wow. So many, but if I had to pick my favorite, I would say France in the nineteen fifties. [00:53:29] S1: Oh, nailed it. What's your go to cocktail? [00:53:36] S0: Any Blanco tequila, don't care, with soda and lots of fresh lemon juice. [00:53:43] S1: Love it. [00:53:44] S0: It feels healthy. [00:53:46] S1: Sorry, that's a vitamin. [00:53:47] S0: Feels like I'm juicing. [00:53:48] S1: It's a vitamin. [00:53:50] S0: Yeah, exactly.
00:53:50 · Nate Berkus, Alexa von Tobel
[00:53:50] S0: Yeah, exactly. [00:53:52] S1: Nate, what is a boutique hotel that you love? [00:53:58] S0: I think that the Aman in Laos in Luang Prabang is singular. It is one of the most, if anyone has the opportunity to go there, visit it, even go for lunch or a drink, it was built in a former French colonial hospital. The architecture is amazing and Luang Prabang is one of the most magical, it's right on the Mekong River. I would say that that would be, it's not really a boutique hotel because it's part of that chain, but it's small. [00:54:29] S1: Yeah, the word singular is such a compliment, [00:54:31] S0: oh my god. It's singular, and Posta Vecchia in Rome, outside of Rome. It's unbelievable, it was the former Getty mansion. It was built for the Orsini family who have a medieval castle next door, and this villa, this insane villa was built to house their guests. So it still has the spirit of hospitality like that. [00:54:53] S1: I love that so much. Favorite city? [00:54:57] S0: New York. [00:54:58] S1: Oh God, great answer. [00:55:00] S0: I love it so much here. It's the best. [00:55:03] S1: Okay. Last two quick questions. What is a mantra that kind of just like runs through your body? A saying, a belief.