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Designing Camelot The Kennedy White House Restoration

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ISBN-10: 0471375144

ISBN-13: 9780471375142

Edition: 1999

Authors: James A. Abbott, Elaine M. Rice

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Nowhere was the "Kennedy style" more evident than in the rooms in which the young President and his wife Jacqueline lived and worked between 1961 and 1963, as America witnessed the transformation of its premier residence from "home of the President" to "house-museum." Designing Camelot is the first book to document the restoration of the White House by Jacqueline Kennedy and her advisors-the most significant and extensive restoration to date. Under the watchful eye of the Fine Arts Committee for the White House, chaired by famed antiquarian Henry Francis du Pont, and, unbeknownst to the American public, French interior designer Stphane Boudin, the White House became a model for historic…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/23/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

About the Authors James A. Abbott is considered the expert on the Kennedy restoration of the White House. He was curator and author of the exhibition and catalogue, A Frenchman in Camelot: The Decoration of the Kennedy White House by Stephane Boudin, on the subject. He received his B.A. in American History from Vassar College, and his M.A. in Museum Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology. He is currently Curator of Decorative Arts at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Elaine M. Rice received her master's degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware. Her master's thesis was the first critical examination of Henry du…    

About the Authors James A. Abbott is considered the expert on the Kennedy restoration of the White House. He was curator and author of the exhibition and catalogue, A Frenchman in Camelot: The Decoration of the Kennedy White House by Stephane Boudin, on the subject. He received his B.A. in American History from Vassar College, and his M.A. in Museum Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology. He is currently Curator of Decorative Arts at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Elaine M. Rice received her master's degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware. Her master's thesis was the first critical examination of Henry du…    

Foreword
Acknowledgments
The Kennedy Style
Restoration: Idea and Organization
Maison Blanche
The State Dining Room
The East Room
The Red Room
The Green Room
The Blue Room
The Ground Floor
Halls
The Private Dining Rooms
The Yellow Oval Room
Guest Rooms
The Victorian Taste
The Private Rooms
The President's Office and Cabinet Room
Epilogue: The Legacy
Appendix
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index