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...staff last week, describing Nancy Reagan's eagerness to get 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue fixed up to her tastes. It was not just that the incoming First Lady had toured the White House with the man who is evidently to be the First Decorator, Los Angeles Interior Designer Ted Graber. At a Georgetown party, she told a Carter aide that when she and her husband leave the mansion, as her "legacy" they will move before Inauguration Day, to give their successors an early start on revamping the family quarters. Not surprisingly, and despite denials by Reagan spokesmen, Carter partisans took...
...living quarters comprise 14 rooms, 7½ baths and east and west sitting rooms on the second floor. Graber will focus on the family sitting room, the master bedroom, Nancy's dressing room and office, and a family study. He aims to use some "staggeringly beautiful" early American furniture he found in a Government warehouse. Also, he says, "there will probably be new rugs, new wallpapers and new drapes and paint. The First...
...grandson of Los Angeles-based antique dealers, Graber, 61, got his start in decorating as a partner of the late William Haines, a favorite of West Coast movie folk known for a kind of Hollywood flamboyance. By contrast, says top New York Designer Mario Buatta, Graber's work shows "more a traditional mixture of today and yesterday; his is definitely not a movie star look...
Nowhere is Graber's clean and classic style more grandly evident than in Winfield House, the London residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Britain that he and Haines renovated for Publisher Walter Annenberg at a cost of more than $1 million. Graber's following is predominantly Western and wealthy, including such clients as the Alfred Bloomingdales (department stores) and the Henry Salvatoris (oil). Says Grace Salvatori: "He has a great sense of color and quality. The night Ted Graber has finished, everything is complete, right down to the flowers and bonbons on the tables. Your husband comes...
...Graber reckons that the average cost of redecorating a room may come to around $50,000, not including the art and antiques a client may want. Though that is what Congress allocates for each First Family's entire refurbishing, the Reagans need not worry about how to pay for their new digs. Extra bills can be paid out of the million fund. - By E. Graydon Carter. Reported by Michael Moritz/Los Angeles and Eileen Shields/Washington