Word: aubusson
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...best thing in the Throne Room is its ceiling by Nash. In fact the best thing about the whole palace, architecturally speaking, is Nash's ceilings. This is just as well, since the floors are unspeakable. The Aubusson carpets have been rolled up and put away -- you can't have twice 5,000 feet shuffling across those every day for two months. In their place are hundreds of yards of new Axminster in industrial-strength reds, which clash strenuously with the green or blue silk on the walls; it looks as though the House of Windsor got a discount deal...
...beast. With conversation at a maximum and action at a minimum, this domestic animal tends to lie down and play dead just when the playwright is striving for most tension. Actors strain for excitement while the play is sound asleep, hiding under polished walnut divans and Aubusson carpets...
Sober Suit. Miró has "done" tapestries in the past; that is, he made small paintings, and tapestry makers in Aubusson or Gobelins reproduced them. "That does not interest me any more," says Miró. With Royo, he is in at the start. For his part, Royo is pleased and amazed: "We both work from 7 in the morning until 1 o'clock, then from 3 to 8 or 9 at night. I'm often exhausted, but he never seems to get tired...
Imperial red, gold, white and black, Aubusson and Araby clamored in the many salons he decorated. The mistresses they were meant to impress were humiliated to be found in them...
...huge tapestry curtains woven at Aubusson to designs by Australian Artist John Coburn are soggy pastiches of Matisse's paper cutouts. In the foyers, no effort to mask and confuse the nobly strict curves of the roof ribs has been spared: one is met by a jumble of well-made but visually meaningless joinery, as if some gnome from the stingyback forests had gone berserk promoting the rarer Australian hardwoods...