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My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.

What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.