The narrator, who becomes a society decorator when her husband and his fortune fail her, begins working with the newly rich.

A society decorator, Thierry Despont, was hired to install a series of period rooms.

She spent five years renovating with the help of Sarah Hunter Kelly, a society decorator she had met in Paris.

I shall refrain from heaping scorn on the values of the society decorators and real estate saleswomen portrayed.

When you're a guest," said Mario Buatta, another society decorator, "you have to meet your host's friends, all these strangers.

"The days of cheap and cheerful are over," Mario Buatta, the society decorator, said.

Each apartment has seen the labors of endless society decorators and most, ambitious architects.

Mario Buatta, the society decorator, had donated himself to an arts organization's benefit auction last spring.

"When I was young it was quite rare," said a society decorator in his early 50's.

"He was known for being one of the first 'high society' decorators in America."