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A dining room in the Georgian style.
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The furnishings of this living room are not of any period, but suggest the Italian Renaissance. The piano has been
painted and decc-rated and carved legs applied,
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THE DECORATOR AND THE CLIENT 33
of New York to lay hands on just the right fabrics, just the fitting pieces of furniture and the individual bits of bric-a-brac, lighting fixtures and all the other trifles concerned in completing such an interior as he may have ever so definitely in mind; but even if the task were lighter, the amount of time required would be too great for those who have other pressing duties to perform. The decorator himself soon finds that he has not the time to function along all these lines and his staff is therefore necessarily larger than perhaps that of any other type of man doing the same amount of business in any other field. Moreover, there are a number of questions concerned with exact space measurements, wall preparations, etc., that are apt to prove onerous in their solution even to the best equipped layman. And so it is that, more and more, the intelligent among the well-to-do have come to appreciate the services that the decorator capable of fully understanding their minds gives them.
With the second group he is likely to have somewhat greater difficulties. Obviously, his supreme necessity is to interpret the personality of the client in the things with which the client is to be surrounded. Sometimes this problem becomes a little trying because the personality is a little difficult to find. But generally, lurking somewhere in the subconscious mind of the purchaser, there are tastes and inclinations which can guide him, and if these tastes are bad it becomes the decorator's duty to improve them. This may sound like an extremely hard r61e to ask the average man of business to undertake, but the desire for the display of good taste in one's home is so general today, and so
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