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CHAPTER II
DECORATORS AND DECORATORS
Now without expending any more space at this point on what the decorator may come to be in the future or what ideal relations may exist between him and the architect, and without touching as yet on the decorator's important relation to the client, it may be as well to consider what happens today when both the decorator and architect are working on the same job. There are several possibilities of relationship that may exist, depending, first of all, on whether the decorator has a drafting room in which he can make designs; secondly, on whether he has a working force, and, thirdly, on whether he has a stock of merchandise. The simplest and most primitive form of decorator is, of course, the one who carries his office in his hat, whose stock in trade is a pencil and a few photographs, and whose means of existence is that he plays golf with people rich enough to become clients. Such a decorator may be able to introduce his friend Jones to his other friend Smith, the architect, and to prevail on Jones to give Smith a commission to build a house, and it is then more than likely that, instead of paying the decorator for his salesmanship, the architect will approve of retaining him to attend to the interior. Of course his position will generally be more complimentary than useful, although if he happens to have
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An entrance hall containing formal pieces of Italian Renaissance design.
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A dining room in the style of the Italian Renaissance.
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ability he may be able to carry things through with more care and attention than the architect could afford to give them. His authority will normally be subordinate to that of the architect.
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