Word: aubusson
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...realist, Brazil's Foreign Minister and the Conference's administrator, Oswaldo Aranha, that the delegates began assembling in Rio. In fine fettle, Aranha snapped orders to painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit air-conditioning system, supervised the refurbishing of crimson satin wall coverings and rich Aubusson rugs in the Itamaraty Palace, Brazil's Foreign Office. He conferred daily with President Vargas, with taut, ascetic U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and with a stream of other diplomats, some of whom left the Palace with fresh paint on their coattails...
...Making the best of it in Unoccupied France, Painters Raoul Dufy and Jean Lurçat were designing modern tapestries at Aubusson. Famed 71-year-old Veteran Henri Matisse, entirely recovered from a recent illness, was in seclusion in his studio at Nice...
Flames, spreading from one exploding fuel tank to another, licked rapidly upwards to the ship's luxurious superstructure. In the grand salon Guy Arnoux' lacquered panels of the Marquis de Lafayette winning the American Revolution cracked and sizzled. An Aubusson tapestry in the tea room, showing Washington's Mount Vernon in gay reds and blues, was soon so much burnt string. Firemen hurried aboard and hurried off again, intimidated by the explosions. In the morning all that remained of the Lafayette was a hot mass of twisted metal...
...explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue and mirrors. Venetian Sitting Room mixed a magnificent pair of Venetian doors, a green Aubusson rug and a modern paned mirror. Modern Drawing Room, in grey, yellow and chartreuse, showed the sure-fire de Wolfe method of using fairly simple and expensive pieces of various periods with some modern lighting, square stuffed chairs, more mirrors and light-colored walls...
...lavender, red and green battle scene ($250), stood in every room. Lumberman Long had few pictures, none by famed artists, but liked bibelots like his small ivory goose ($2.25). Gongs announced dinner even when Mr. Long was alone and his valet played the organ while he sat on Aubusson-tapestried chairs, ate from English china, drank from hand-cut crystal goblets (sold for $280). At large dinners, a silver tankard more than two feet high ($135) decorated the table. A sufferer from asthma, Mr. Long had a mahogany stand on which he kept his atomizer. In the basement...