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Article: Queer Eye for Kips Bay.(kitchen & bath)
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- Interior Design
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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BEFORE HIS CAREER MAKEOVER, he was simply another Parish-Hadley Associates alum with a small namesake studio. But since he debuted as the decorating expert on Bravos smash hit Queer Eye for the Straight Guy--demonstrating a flair with mass-market furniture and punchy color--Thom Filicia has become a name big enough for New York's august Kips Bay Decorator Show House, domain of Jamie Drake, Tom Britt, and company.
When Waterworks sates and marketing director Dennis Scully, an occasional collaborator on Filicia's off air commissions, suggested a partnership for Kips Bay 2004, he immediately saw the benefits of some show-house exposure. "It's important that people ...