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Article: Red, white, and Tiffany blue.(White House's interior design)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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The ambitious transformation of the White House by Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994), which began in 1961--from a hotel-like assemblage of department store reproductions to a living museum of fine American antiques--was so greatly admired that many people believed those interiors would be thenceforth immutable. But nothing at the White House is forever, as that first lady came to realize about her own work there. While I was interviewing her for a New York Times Magazine article in 1980 on White House interiors since her restoration project, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis told me with fatalistic detachment, "You know, in another hundred years it will be just one more chapter in ...