Curtains Up for the One Percent
While many Americans were stockpiling toilet paper and Clorox, the rich bought houses, sparking a gold rush in the decorating trades.
“I’ve literally never been busier,” said the interior decorator Todd A. Romano, seen here hanging curtains at a ranch in Fredericksburg, Tex. “It’s nuts.”Credit.Drew Anthony Smith for The New York Times
Rob Satran thinks of it as the Hoshizaki syndrome.
Beginning last March, when the world went into lockdown and it became clear that, as Mr. Satran said, “people were not going to be spending their disposable income on normal things,” the trade in high-end appliances abruptly took off.