Word: damask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much escaped the memento seekers when Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House closed down last April. Opera buffs pried off seat numbers, and ripped down damask wall coverings. Not to be outdone, RCA Victor carted away (after paying $10,000) the gold brocade curtain and announced that it would cut the drapery into 45,000 patches and include one in each copy of a souvenir-record album called Opening Nights at the Metropolitan. Of course, the curtain did shrink some in the cleaning, but there was enough to go around as Soprano Leontyne Price scissored off the first snippet...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
Worse yet, with three more weeks of the season still to go, opera-buffs-turned-scavengers are already at work. Chunks of plaster and strips of damask wall covering have been torn away and the crystal pendants on some of the light fixtures have been stolen, as have many of the name cards on the dressing-room doors. To discourage further looting, the Met has removed most of the paintings, sculpture and memorabilia on display...
Sweating uncomfortably under the incongruous TV lights, Britain's nobly dressed bishops, judges, peers and politicians jammed the House of Lords last week as Queen Elizabeth arrived in a glass coach and took her seat on a gilded throne. Up strode a graceful man in a wig, damask robe and black velvet breeches. Kneeling, he handed the monarch her speech. Kneeling, he took it back after Elizabeth had read it - thus opening Parliament with a rit ual that has scarcely changed at all since the first Elizabeth performed it 400 years...
...Southern California entrepreneur and art collector (TIME, April 24), bought the gallery's elegant Manhattan mansion and everything in it. The wares include 146 paintings dating from the early Renaissance through the 18th century. There are tapestries ranging from the French Gothic to Francois Boucher's rose damask Gobelins commissioned by Louis XVI, an abundance of porcelains, sculpture, antique furniture, and a rare 4,000-book art library. None of the treasures will go under the hammer or into Norton Simon's private collection. Instead, Simon's separate nonprofit educational foundation plans to lend or give...