Word: gobelins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saint Gaudens built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats. In 1939, 13 years after she died, the Oelrichs family closed the house. Last week house and furnishings were auctioned...
...first feast of signatures was spread on a yellow-tapestried table in the Gobelin Hall of old Belvedere Palace, Vienna. In these halls once roared the voice of Eugen of Savoy, one of the Habsburgs' greatest warriors. Here strode Archduke Franz Ferdinand before Sarajevo. Here whispered poor Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria. Here also the architects of the New Order redrew the designs of Czecho-Slovakia (Nov. 2, 1938) and Rumania...