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Greg Natale (born February 20, 1974) is an Australian interior designer and owner of the Sydney-based interior design company Greg Natale Design.

Greg was awarded the Belle Coco Republic Interior Designer of the Year 2014 for the second time (his first award was in 2011 ) and has been nominated for five Interior Design Excellence Awards (Inside magazine), which will be announced on November 21st 2014.

Greg Natale's first book, The Tailored InteriorBold text, was released by Hardie Grant Books on November 1st 2014.

•	1 Design career •	2 Awards and press •	3 Collaborations •	4 About Greg Natale Design •	5 Bibliography •	6 References •	7 External links  Design Career

Natale studied interior design at the Design Centre Enmore, in Sydney, then went on to study visual arts at Sydney College of the Arts and architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. In 1996, he joined Sydney design firm Barnett Designers Pty Ltd, then went on to work with two more design practices, HBO+EMTB and SJB, before starting his own business, Greg Natale Design, in 2001.[2] Natale’s first job under his own name was his sister’s one-bedroom apartment, in which he installed wall-to-wall custom-coloured Florence Broadhurst wallpaper, layering it with matching artwork and linen. The apartment was published in Australian magazine Belle in 2002 and UK magazine Wallpaper* in 2005, and won Natale his first award, the 2002 Belle Wild Card award, a category created especially for him. With this, Natale started to make a name for his unique approach to layered decorating.[2][3][4] Among his inspirations, Natale counts the work of interior designers such as the late English designer David Hicks and Danish designer Verner Panton, and of architects such as the late Australianmodernist Harry Seidler and American modernist Paul Rudolph. He cites US Arts & Architecture magazine’s Case Study Houses of the ’50s and ’60s and the Italian post-modernistMemphis Group as major influences on his work. Outside the industry, he is inspired by the sophisticated tailoring of fashion icons such as Halston and Tom Ford, and owes his love of fabrics and prints to his Italian heritage (Greg’s parents immigrated to Australia from Calabria, Italy, in the 1950s).[2][5] Natale is known for his signature 'look', which is tightly edited, tailored and layered, with an emphasis on print and a sense of drama. Belle magazine describe his interiors as 'glamorous and sophisticated'. In the foreword to Natale’s book, The Tailored Interior, potter, designer and author Jonathan Adler pinpoints the key to Greg Natale designs as being 'an economy of gesture'.

2. Awards and Press