In One57's den, it took five tries before the green lacquer was dark enough, and the first upholsterer working on a voluptuous chair in the living room quit because of the job's difficulty.
In 1912, Renzo Frau, a Sardinian upholsterer living in Turin, which was home to Italy's auto industry as well as its movie production, decided there was a lot of money to be spent on luxury goods.