Today we feature our first Principal for our Designer Diaries, Janea Nakagawa!
1) What is your favorite BHD project (either that you have worked on or not)?
Jackson Street is my favorite BHD project. It represents the balance of art, architecture, and furnishings which defines BraytonHughes’ work.
Photos by Paul Dyer Photography
2) What is your favorite design product?
3) What (or who) inspired you to be a designer?
My journey to becoming a designer was a circuitous path. Originally, I wanted to be a journalist because I was inspired by Connie Chung. I quickly realized that I didn’t enjoy writing or researching so I moved on to fashion design, but I couldn’t even sew on a button (and I still can’t). I took the aspects of fashion design that interested me the most, which was the creative part of putting together individual pieces or elements into a unique combination. This is when I found interior design.
4) What is your favorite hotel or restaurant?
Sushi Ran
5) What was your first job?
I was a hostess at a restaurant
6) What is your favorite snack food?
Lays potato chips
7) If you could teleport somewhere right now where would you go?
Dubai
8) Where have you gotten lost on purpose?
Paris
9) Coffee or Tea? How do you take it?
Coffee, preferably Illy dark roast, two sugars
10) How do you get your news?
I read the NY Times and SF Chronicle