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Totally Booked with Zibby

Nate Berkus, FOUNDATIONS: Timeless Design That Feels Personal

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Parenting, Literary, Moms, Arts, Reading, Entertainment, Books, Connection, Inspiration

4.5643 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby interviews celebrated designer and author Nate Berkus about his beautifully photographed new book, FOUNDATIONS: Timeless Design That Feels Personal. Nate shares the evolution of the project, from a rejected “10 little books in a box” concept to a comprehensive, user-friendly guide built on 30 years of design experience. He shares why design should be personal, honest, emotional, and deeply reflective of one’s life, and explains his unconventional approach to understanding clients: starting in their closets. He also speaks candidly about surviving the Indian Ocean tsunami, losing his partner, and how grief reshaped his life and work.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Totally Booked Live at the Whitby Hotel, where I get to interview some of my favorite authors in front of you lovely people here in this wonderful crowd.

0:11.2

Today I'm so excited to talk to Nate Berkus, whose latest book is called Foundations.

0:16.7

Welcome.

0:17.4

Thanks for coming.

0:18.2

Of course.

0:19.3

Your book was so amazing.

0:21.2

I got fabulous tips.

0:23.0

I'm rethinking my entire apartment.

0:38.5

Not even kidding. I'm available. Are you? Yes. Okay. Yeah. This is not a joke. We have some dining room needs. Deadly serious. Okay. I also made the mistake of buying a couch, which is now floating in the middle of a room, and I don't know what to do.

0:39.1

Okay.

0:39.6

Okay.

0:37.5

Anyway, I'm kidding. I also made the mistake of buying a couch which is now floating in the middle of a room, and I don't know what to do.

0:38.8

Okay.

0:39.4

Okay.

0:40.4

Anyway, I'm kidding.

0:41.8

I mean, not really.

0:42.6

But anyway.

0:44.6

Okay, tell everybody about Foundations.

0:47.7

So, Foundations was, I know everybody says it's a labor of love.

0:52.4

It really wasn't a labor of love.

0:53.9

Was not? No, not at all. It really wasn't a labor of love. Was not?

0:54.4

No, not at all.

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