decorating” today’, he wrote, ‘bring a mental picture of busy people
running around with a pick-me-up for wilting upholstery, and scouring
Third Avenue for “something amusing and chic” all for ten per cent
profit’.^4 Significantly Robsjohn-Gibbings described himself as an ‘interior
designer’, a member, that is, of a new community of aesthetic practitioners
who saw themselves as highly professionalized and closely aligned with, 187
The living area of Taliesin, Wisconsin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed by
Wright, illustrated in Roberto Aloi’s L’Arredamento Moderno, 1955.