decorador

Decorador is a Spanish noun that denotes a person who decorates spaces or objects. In common usage it refers to a professional who plans and executes interior or event decoration, selecting color schemes, furniture, textiles, lighting, and accessories to achieve a desired style or atmosphere. Decorators may work on homes, offices, hotels, or weddings, and they often collaborate with clients, architects, and suppliers. Training and certification vary by country; some decorators hold formal degrees in interior design or related fields, while others acquire expertise through experience and short courses. The role emphasizes aesthetics as well as space planning and safety considerations.

In information technology, the term decorador corresponds to the decorator pattern (patrón decorador). It is a structural design pattern that enables behavior to be added to individual objects dynamically without changing their interface. A decorator wraps the original object in another object, delegating requests while extending functionality. This approach uses composition over inheritance and supports layering of responsibilities at runtime. In programming languages such as Python, a decorator can be a function or construct that takes a function or class and returns an augmented version, often used with syntactic sugar like the @ syntax. The pattern is widely discussed in software engineering.

The word derives from decorar, meaning to decorate, and in both senses it involves enhancement without altering the core entity.