Viewing page 91 of 117

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

- 187 -

and other materials they planned to use in whatever they were doing. When they designed a private residence, I asked them to include, as well, written personality sketches of the owner and especially of his wife. These profiles often had to be kept under lock and key until I absorbed the contents and then they were destroyed. They were not always flattering, but to me they were an essential part of the process of creating exactly the right fabric in the right colors and design for the particular persons who would be living with them. Color and personality are closely related, as I see it. I find myself subconsciously thinking of one person as "blue," another "green," etc.. In fact, all shades of the spectrum are represented in the human aura.

To jump ahead of my story by a year or two, this penchant for knowing the persons for shom [[whom]] I might be designing led to an amusing experience in Chicago. A columnist in the Chicago American published the following item: