The founder of the American Association of Interior Decorators, Chandler Robbins Clifford (1858-1935), was also chairman of the Design Registration League, contributed articles on interior design to the New York Times, and published several books including Period Decoration (1901), The Philosophy of Color (1904), Color Value (1907), Period Furnishings (1911), and Lecture Tips On Decoration (1916). https://archive.org/details/philosophyofcolo00clif/