Thom Filicia
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| Thom Filicia | |
| Birth name | Thomas L. Filicia. |
| Born | May 17, 1969 in Syracuse, New York, USA |
| Official site | ThomFilicia.com |
Thom Filicia (born May 17, 1969) is the interior design expert on the American television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. He is also a co-author of a book based on the show.
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[edit] Biography
Raised in Syracuse, New York, Filicia attended Syracuse University's Art and Design school in the college of Visual and Performing Arts. He attended the university from spring 1990 until spring 1993 and holds a B.A. in interior design.
[edit] Career
In his final year of college Filicia was hired after an internship by the design firm Parish Hadley, then worked for Robert Metzger Interiors and at Jeffrey Bilhuber before opening his own interior design company, Thom Filicia Inc., in 1998. [1]
His firm has completed both residential and commercial work in metropolitan New York, the Hamptons, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Florida, California, Utah and Bermuda. His firm was chosen as the exclusive design firm for the US Pavilion at the 2005 World's Fair [2]. He describes his decorating style as modern classicism.
Filicia gained great exposure when he became the interior design expert on the tv reality show Queer Eye in 2003. He and his designs have been the subject of many magazine articles and he has frequently appeared as a guest expert on many American TV shows.
He also is co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab Five's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better (Clarkson Potter).
Filicia is currently working on a home makeover show for the Style Network, titled Dress My Nest, which premieres March 28, 2007.[3] He is also working on his own furniture and home collections, and a how-to book on interiors.[4]
[edit] Awards
- Queer Eye won an Emmy in 2004 for Outstanding Reality Program, and received a nomination again in the same category in 2005.
- In 2006 he was chosen as one of House Beautiful's Top 100 American Designers and House & Garden's Top 50 "Tastemakers."
[edit] References
- ^ Tszuj-it.com. Bios. Retrieved on March, 2007.
- ^ Designer of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2005 World's Fair http://www.thomfilicia.com/index_.html
- ^ Style Network. Retrieved on February, 2004.
- ^ Metrosource. Center of the Cyclone. Retrieved on February, 2004.
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