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best suited to Ms problem, the tastes of his client 

 must nevertheless be taken into consideration to 

 a greater or less extent. Here the determining 

 factor will be the balance struck between the tact- 

 fulness of the designer and the obstinacy of the 

 client. <^4-~ 



Every design scheme has natural limitations 

 w r hich clip the wings of imagination, and the tastes 

 of a client who has little or no education along 

 esthetic lines is a limitation second to none. More- 

 over, the difficulty will be increased by the fact 

 that people who have little esthetic development 

 are seldom aware of this lack. If the designer is 

 able, by broad training and experience, to produce 

 in such circumstances a result that will please a 

 comparatively uneducated taste, and yet appeal as 

 beautiful to those who understand the subject, it 

 should be a source of greater satisfaction to him 

 than if he had had a free hand, and no limitations 

 with which to cope. A designer who conceives a 

 scheme without consulting his client's tastes and 

 wishes will meet with occasional disappointments, 

 and he certainly deserves to do so. 



All types of design deal first with the total area 

 of the problem as a boundary line. In the formal 

 type this area is to be cut up and divided into 



