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the curtain in Adrian's salon with the result that their decorators soon began using my materials.

I have been fortunate in that, so frequently, what began as a business relationship blossomed into a lasting friendship. So it was with Adrian and his lovely little wife. Janet Gaynor. We have known many happy times together.

The next new friend was the master builder himself, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Tim Pfluger telephoned one day and said he was bringing Mr. Wright to the studio. I went into complete panic. I had rather associated him with the Baubaus School, the "less-is-more" group of architects who scorned the fur-belows and gingerbread of the Victorians. I felt sure that a "hair shirt," as I would have described Mr. Wright, erroneously, would absolutely hate the vivid colors and the extensive use of metal in my fabrics.

I swept up my bag and prepared to flee. "Tim