Draper Touch: The High Life & High Style of Dorothy Draper

Either a prospective client hears my ideas and has an attack of apoplexy or gives me carte blanche," Dorothy said. Some of her qualities that irritated people socially were a valuable asset in business negotiation. She did not discuss money; the only numbers she concerned herself with were telephone numbers. Her clients quickly learned taht her famous permissive decorating dictum, "If it looks right, it is right," had a different meaning when she was there. Then it meant, "If it looks right to Dorothy Draper, it is right, and if it does not, it is wrong." --from The Draper Touch