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He cannot satisfy himself with the few commissions a year that could be personally attended to and he is forced more and more to entrust work to other people. Besides this, he finds himself without any definite place in the organization of the field as it exists, in America at any rate. He is not recognized as an interior architect, he is not supreme in the decisions which affect the interior of a building, and he is still without any special means of appealing for support to the general public.
At this point he is confronted by the necessity for
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making a decision between remaining as he is and doing odd jobs here and there, or establishing himself more firmly than ever tinder greater expenses and the necessity of securing more and more work to meet them. He finds invariably that to obtain the results he desires he must execute more and more work himself, under his own supervision and by means oi his own employees. He may start doing no more than having his lamp-shades and pillows manufactured inua small room in his own premises; but then he finds his curtains delayed and improperly done, and he starts having these made up by some of the pillow hands. Then he discovers that he requires a man to measure the windows and cut the fabrics, and this man is generally, one who is accustomed to working on the upholstery of furniture, and so he grows imperceptibly toward the establishment of an upholstery shop. Then it develops that the frames of his upholstered furniture are not well varnished and this may lead to the introduction of a varnisher, and so on until, if successful enough, he has established a complete factory.
When the decorator becomes the proud possessor of a manufacturing plant he discovers that during some periods of the year a large number of people is required for the work he has on hand and that at other periods only a very small number is sufficient.
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