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TOLEDO. Spanish Chef Francisco Gon zalez from Madrid's Jockey Club turns out fine food (sea bass in parchment, tournedos, partridges with grapes of Almeria). Like the rest of the Spanish pavilion, the decor is elegant, and there is a small armada of trim, bolero-jacketed waiters. $5-$25. The pavilion's No. 2 restaurant, the Granada, serves an all-Spanish menu that features cold gazpacho soup, paella, sangria (red wine with soda) at slightly lower prices than the Toledo...
SPAIN. Old World elegance in breezy modern decor. Murals by avant-garde artists grace the interior, a bronze monk by Sculptor Pablo Serrano stands in the garden. The art gallery displays old masters, modern masters and, perhaps, future masters. Three Picassos, a Miro and two Dalis counterpoint Goya's majas and works by El Greco, Ribera and Velasquez...
...interlocking flats, while the grim coloring and crooked street patterns set the tone for the action on stage. Lighting by the incomparable Jonathon Warburg shows off the scenery to its best advantage. Period costumes were splendid. Anita Scott must have used some Hogarth drawings as a guide for 1770 decor...
...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...