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

2.   After breaking with the famously temperamental Hicks, Hampton spent eight years with the New York society decorators McMillen, Inc.

3.   Informed that the sculpture was now hers, Kate Hampton, a daughter of the late society decorator Mark Hampton, seemed taken aback.

4.   Mario Buatta, the New York society decorator, strolled from one cocktail party to the next with a gag toupee on his head.

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