- Date Of Birth: January 29, 1970
- Date Of Death: March 6, 2015
- State: Louisiana
Locally, he was perhaps better known as the host of Chet Chat on WLAE-TV, and for his Thursday fashion and Friday design segments on Fox News 8.
Mr. Pourciau was an avid competitive bodybuilder and held several titles. He loved sports and attending Saints and Pelicans games. His vocation and avocation merged when he was named resident designer for the Pelicans basketball franchise in 2012.
Born in New Iberia on Jan. 29, 1970, he launched a new line of home furnishings last October inspired by his birthplace and called Iberia Parish. His maternal grandmother was the cook for the area’s Patout family, who maintained one of the last fully functioning sugar cane plantations in the state, and where she lived in “the quarters.” He thus experienced a way of life once common in Louisiana and now part of its history.
Mr. Pourciau attended Catholic High School in New Iberia and the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. While at USL, he worked at the Maison Blanche store in Lafayette, where his ebullient personality prompted the store to have him play Mr.
Mr. Pourciau recalled for friends his childhood preoccupation with constantly rearranging his bedroom furniture. He ultimately obtained an interior design degree from Delgado Community College but was quick to acknowledge his debt to the late interior decorator Leon Irwin III, for whom he worked as an assistant and credited with developing his sense of color and pattern. Although his personal taste leaned to mid-century modern, his design method was to discern what made his client comfortable and then present the concept in a striking or stylish manner.
He is survived by his partner Jack Sullivan; mother Earlie Mae Pourciau and sister Joy Greene, both of New Iberia; brothers Roy Greene of Baldwin; Keith Greene of Iowa, La.; Nathaniel Greene of Kenner; and William Greene of Indian Village, Mich. He also is survived by his godchildren Anderson Cooper of Sugarland, Texas; Nathaniel “B.J.” Green Jr.
