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''Designer Guys'' was a Canadian design show on HGTV, created by Mary Darling and produced by WestWind Pictures. Debuting in 2001, the first seasons were hosted by Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados.〔"Decor without decorum ; Designer Guys use a playful approach to dispense advice". ''Toronto Star'', January 14, 2001.〕 They hosted until 2004, when they were offered a deal with Alliance Atlantis to create a new series, ''Design Rivals''.〔"Designer guys duke it out". ''Calgary Herald'', June 27, 2004.〕 After they departed, the show was relaunched in 2005 with new hosts Matt Davis, Allen Chan and Anwar Mekhayech, partners at The Design Agency.〔"New designer guys pick up the ball in popular show". ''Edmonton Journal'', March 4, 2006.〕 The second version of the show remained in production until 2008.〔"Movable feasts; The Designer Guys seamlessly segue from kitchen pitching to brassiere braggadocio". ''National Post'', April 10, 2008.〕 In one of the most noted episodes of the second incarnation, Davis, Chan and Mekhayech travelled to Dawson City, Yukon to redesign the childhood home of Canadian literary icon Pierre Berton as a writer's retreat.〔"Design goes north; TV HGTV's 'Designer Guys' give Pierre Berton's childhood home in the Yukon a face-lift". ''The Telegraph Journal'', March 27, 2007.〕 The original Hyndman-Sabados era has also been credited as one of the innovators of a shift in home design reality programming in the early 2010s,〔("Chris Hyndman, co-host of ‘Steven and Chris’, remembered for breaking boundaries" ). ''Metro'', August 4, 2015.〕 as one of the first such programs to be hosted not by a single designer depicting only the conventional parts of the renovation process, but by a pair of designers who allowed their debates and conflicts over design choices to be depicted as part of the series.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Designer Guys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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