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I have employed this word a couple of times and I believe it is a very important one, for, after all, effect is one of the greatest elements for the creation of which a layman comes to a decorator. Comfort is, of course, a very significant matter in certain rooms. Durability is another, but the creation of effect is, after all, the test of the decorator. Is the interior strikingly delightful at first glance? Does it remain so after a length of time? Has it a certain originality as well as charm, a certain novelty, a note of surprise? To me this note of surprise is a primary matter, for it seems to me that somewhere, in every room, there should be something surprising, something perhaps a little amusing. I am afraid I shall have to explain this later on, but I leave it to the reader to think about and see if he does not come to agree with me. Any one, we acknowledge, can do a room strictly according to one of the periods, but I believe that it is undeniable that the constant repetition of good taste which is so common today becomes a little tiresome. We crave something in addition, some-
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thing to tweak our curiosity, to stimulate us, to delight us more actively than the sense of calmness and quietude that a merely refined interior gives.
There is invariably a certain temptation on the part of the decorator to sell his clients the most expensive things that he can, not only because he makes more money on them, but also because they may be things that he admires and cannot himself afford in his own home. This tendency has made a portion of the public regard interior decorators as a lot of robbers.
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