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...want to compete with her fictional creation's fame--Knight pursued other projects. He went on to illustrate more than 60 books (Where's Wallace?, Sunday Morning). He is currently a staff artist for Vanity Fair. But it's his iconic depiction of Eloise, the enfant terrible with porcupine-needle hair, that he will be known...
...perimeters used to be 18 acres where 6,000 people worked and visited. Now that boundary has been pushed out to include Lafayette Park and the Ellipse, double the old area and, ironically, forming a "Presidents Park" just as Pierre L'Enfant had planned it back in 1791 with a President's security very much on his mind...
...touch ("timeless!"), or dowdy ("refined!"). This discrepancy was blatantly apparent at the recent haute couture shows in Paris. The big show of the season should have been Givenchy's. It was 28-year-old Welshman Julien Macdonald's turn to try to revamp the legendary house after enfant terrible Alexander McQueen quit to build his own brand with Gucci Group. Macdonald, who once designed knitwear for McQueen, played it safe. Very safe. Macdonald makes dull Paris debut, said London's Independent. The collection was lovely, but not ground-breaking. It looked like a job application for a couturier. Macdonald seemed...
Though the final building designed by James Hoban had dramatically shrunk from L'Enfant's original dream house, it was still the biggest in America when Adams moved in on Nov. 1, 1800. His arrival at about noon from Philadelphia caused little stir when he came down Pennsylvania Avenue in a nondescript carriage, one manservant on horseback behind him. Adams did some routine work in a makeshift office on the first floor of the still unfinished structure, ate supper, then took a candle to make his way up a servants' winding staircase to his bedroom. The main staircase...
Before November 1800, however, even though work was under way on the Capitol, there was yet little sense of a Federal City. The only evidence of habitation was about 600 modest houses strewn across the marshy but beautiful landscape, which had inspired L'Enfant as he worked at his drawing board in a dim room in Suter's Fountain Inn in Georgetown. The unlikely figure of Adams, embodying the presidency, would bring the spark of life to the new city simply by taking up residence in the house. And though the President's House still stood mostly silent and dark...