Posted on 09/02/2010 10:11:47 AM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON - President Obama's Oval Office has had a face-lift with a New York accent.
The office has undergone a top-to-bottom makeover, highlighted by handmade striped wallpaper from Amagansett in the Hamptons.
The President's brown leather desk chair, coffee table made of American walnut and mica, custom-made couches and two new table lamps with blue ceramic bases were all crafted by New York manufacturers.
The White House treated the identities of the Empire State companies who produced the furnishings like state secrets, declining to further identify them.
The price tag for the redo also was not disclosed, but interior design experts gave the Daily News a guesstimate of $20,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” A quote often used and attributed to Martin Luther King and now on the 0’s rug.
However:
“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine if by conscience. And from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.” Written by Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister in 1853.
A now historic and “environmentally friendly” and typical example of 0’s fantastic history research skills.
LOL
No one should ever wallpaper over a door. Ever.
Then again, no one should have ever wallpapered the Oval Office in the first place.
It appears to have more of a 70’s Bob Newhart look to me.
They can redesign and rearrange the furniture, but they just can’t get the stench out.
It looks like the medium priced suite at a Holiday Express.
His desk is always empty so it will match his experience and scrubbed background. He doesn’t do work anyway, and never has.
The price listed is ridiculous. You can’t get diddly for $20K in NY. Let alone custom designed, handmade furniture and hand made wallpaper.
There is an historis handmade French wallpaer from the 19th century in City Hall.The reproduction, still available, would cost over $150,000 for a medium sized dining room.
The original in City Hall was restored at a cost of almost $200K paid for by private donations.
” ...interior design experts gave the Daily News a guesstimate of $20,000.”
aw, c’mon. Any one of us could have done better at Goodwill with $200.
Right now it's got a Muslim-drab, Malaysian look.
Maybe he just wants to have other world leaders come to the Oval Office, and have them think that Obama is the President of a United States that isn't anything special. This room will go a long way toward accomplishing that.
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