Thom Filicia

Thom Filicia

Interior Designer

Thom Filicia is an interior designer, most famous for his role as an interior design expert on the television program "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" on the Bravo network. Filicia established his own design firm in 1998 and since then has completed residential and commercial work around the country, as well as designing the U.S. Pavilion at the 2005 World's Fair in Japan. In 2006 he was chosen as one of House Beautiful magazine's Top 100 American Designers and House & Garden magazine's Top 50 "Tastemakers."

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Felicia says it was easier to tell his parents he was gay than to tell them he would be on a show called “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.”
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Felicia has had enough of the “Real Housewives.”
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Besides his own apartment, Felicia’s favorite interior space in New York City is the Four Seasons Restaurant, which is of its moment, yet timelessly cool.
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Just because a room is eco-friendly doesn’t mean it has to look like it’s eco-friendly.
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Ultimately, the designer says he’s creating spaces for people to inhabit. “At the end of the day… you have to constantly be inspired.”
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Tacky is not the worst thing in the world—it’s better to have bad taste than to have no taste at all.