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A very feminine bedroom, with painted four poster Louis XVI bed, with canopy of satin edged with lace, tulip wood commode and cabinets.
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A portion of a bedroom executed in Hungarian ash.
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stock because he happens to have it, rather than something more suitable which he would have to go and buy; but there is nothing inherent in the large decorator's position that makes this follow as a matter of course.
As regards the relation of either type of decorator to the architect, it must be clear that whether or not the architect's position is supreme, the first type of decorator is at best an assembler of the productions of other manufacturers, whereas the second type may be not only the actual executor of the architect's designs, but also the designer and executor of his own original conceptions. Moreover, the large decorator-manufacturer can, if he wishes, furnish his clientele with a signal advantage which is impossible to the small decorator, and that is, that in manufacturing his own articles he can save the client the manufacturer's profit and content himself with the regular decorator's trade profit. This, I think, is frequently done, and it seems to me that the public should soon begin to realize that instead of paying more to large decorators, it actually has to pay less than it does to small ones. Even the large decorator, manufacturing as he does so many things required for the interior of a home and perhaps retaining in his employ a large staff of painters and other decorators for work on walls and ceilings; even he has his difficulties in knowing where to stop the process of manufacture, for he has still to depend on outside factories for a considerable part of his work: for example, his marble work, metal work, stained or leaded glass, pottery and fabrics. There is scarcely any limit to the extent of the decorative field if it is
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