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

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

Carleton Varney

Shannongrove Press

Clark Calloway, a young New England born decorator works in New York City for the legendary design firm of Diedre Dawn &amp; Company, alongside the aging and cantankerous blueblood Diedre and widower, Paul Hedges, chief design associate. Clark enters a world of glamour as the firm's clients number the "who's who" in the theater, film, hotel, sports, and business worlds. Clark's talents include, not only design and decorating, but also attracting the amorous attention of the magical movie star 'goddess', Pamela Raven, and those of her niece, the rebellious, anti-establishemnt and orphaned Holly Raven. 
When Clark becomes involved with Maria Pucci, a young 'on-the-way-up' starlet, and with Allen Friedberg, head honcho at Metropolis Pictures in Hollywood, sparks and drapery fabrics fly, amidst a background set in the early 1970's, when the 'pot and pop' cultures were just beginning. 
This novel gives the reader an inside picture of the interior design business as it has never before been presented.

The Decorator: A Novel

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

The Decorator: A Novel