
In Defense of Decorators
Confession: I am not an interior decorator nor have I ever played one on TV (THAT was Bette Davis, and if you’ve never seen the pilot for “The Decorator,” run don’t walk to YouTube and watch it, if not for Davis’s voracious scenery chomping performance, then for Mary Wicke’s brilliant comic timing.) But I do know a lot of interior decorators and designers from my tenure as president of Scalamandre, the grand American textiles house. Some are wonderful friends, others simply t