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A living room of Early English derivation, with geometric ceiling and Elizabethan court cupboard in oak. A simple stained glass window is set inside the regular casement window of the house.
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cializing and rendering artistically valueless the whole result.
It seems to me that the first essential to a big decorating concern is a big man. For, just as the individual decorator with the smallest possible office must be something of a designer, something of a colorist, and a great deal of a man of taste and refinement and knowledge both of form and of mechanical construction, so must the big established decorator, to remain authentic in his function, be profoundly versed in all the processes of his craft and possessed of a personality and mind at once greater and more dominating than that of any of his employees. He must be the unquestioned head of his enterprise, not because he is all-powerful, but because he is the greatest worker in every branch, the dominant force in the factory, in the varnish shop, among the decorators, the designers, the upholsterers; the greatest at color arrangement, infallible in criticism, possessing the finest historical background and the most vigorous originality.
Then let him grow. Let him have a hundred or a thousand employees, let him do a hundred or a thousand jobs a year. Every fibre of the organization will be reinvigorated week after week by a desire to surpass all previous records, not only as to volume but also in decorative value. Ceaseless inspiration, drawing on every one from top to bottom and turning back again to revitalize each in turn: this .seems to me the only way that decoration can be manifold and fine.
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CHAPTER IV
IS THE DECORATOR A BUSINESS MAN OR A PROFESSIONAL?
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