Word: decoration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rooms include a cavernous (110 ft. by 40 ft.) tapestried main hall that once contained one of the largest Persian Kirmanshah rugs ever loomed. Other features: an Italian Renaissance library, a Louis XIV music room, a Louis XV ballroom, a Louis XVI grand salon, 16 guest rooms with decor ranging from Oriental to American Colonial. The Restoration Ball was held there last week to help raise some $2,000,000 for the museum's renovation. Among the luminaries on hand: Florida's Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, Mrs. Ricardo C. Gonzales, a granddaughter of Flagler...
...society celebrated its swift growth by moving into a new building on East 64th Street designed by Philip Johnson and christened Asia House. Architect Johnson's curious combination of austere steel-and-glass with a luxurious leather-and-linen decor might strike some visitors as overformal, but at least it did nothing to detract from the superb objects displayed in the opening show. The loan exhibition chosen from the top American collections consisted of 46 masterpieces, ranging from Japan to Afghanistan and covering a span of 3,000 years...
...Only a Paper Moon, Pennies from Heaven}, joined in the singing of the Whiffenpoof Song. Surprise Guest Nat "King" Cole sang a few numbers. A hairdresser flitted around spraying hairdressing on falling female locks. General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations and ship them to our next Moto-rama." An elderly lady observed with a sniff that old Henry Ford "wouldn't have liked all this smoking...