Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current rage, the florid art nouveau. Among Tiffany's contributions was a huge opalescent glass screen in the entrance hall. After Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration, he issued a brusque order to "break in small pieces that Tiffany screen." T.R.'s special contribution to the White House decor was an extensive remodeling in the restrained neoclassical style of McKim, Mead and White, although he is more often remembered for his array of moose heads in the State Dining Room...
...main arenas of change have been three public rooms on the first floor-the Green, Blue and Red rooms. They are of similar size, about 20 ft. square with regal 30-ft. ceilings. In each of the three rooms, the furniture and decor have been restricted to a single distinct period. The Green Room is done in the Federal style prevalent in the days of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the Blue Room in the French imports of the Monroe era, 1817-25, and the Red Room in the gilt and scarlet of the Empire style of the late 1830s...
...hotels pride themselves on the original works of art they hang in lobbies and guest rooms (the New York Hilton has 8,500 specially commissioned works), one of the least appreciative viewers is Conrad Hilton. "He wouldn't know a Rubens from a Ribicoff," says an aide. The decor of Casa Encantada gives the total effect of the main lounge of the Queen Mary...
...skillful blocking job, and the motion does much to augment the thin script. Hamlin's actors move in sumptuous surroundings, designed by Donald Soule. The living room set is appropriately busy and garish, and the bedroom scene is almost worth the price of the ticket with its popsicle pink decor. Lewis Smith's excellent and correctly over-styled costumes complement the sets well...
...London's Sunday Times (and the Observer), and in no time at all the house was sold, lock, stock and faded, flyblown decor. By couching his property description in readably deprecating prose, a chipper British real estate agent named Roy Brooks at 46 has become London's most effective real estate salesman...