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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Nate Berkus

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Nate Berkus
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 17
Designer
Interior Designer
Television Presenter
County of Orange
California
Architecture
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I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
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