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Michelle Obama Redecorates The Old White House Family Dining Room (w/horrific $290,000 paintings)
Washington Post ^

Posted on 03/25/2015 11:13:45 AM PDT by drewh

Visitors to the White House on Tuesday saw a side of the mansion that had previously been hidden from public view. The Old Family Dining Room, once a private space for first family meals, has been refurbished by Michelle Obama in her first major attempt to leave her mark on the interior of the historic house.

The dining room, used in recent decades as a staging area for State Dining Room events, has been thoroughly modernized. The works added to the room are bold, including a custom-made rug based on a 1950 weaving by Anni Albers. Most of the artists featured in the room lived in the last century, including Alma Thomas, a force in the Washington Color School and the first African-American woman to be included in the White House permanent collection.

Thomas’s piece, “Resurrection,” is reflective of her expressionist style, evoking a burst of color. The White House Historical Association acquired it at auction last year for $290,000. The association, founded Jacqueline Kennedy, also paid for the repainting of the walls, which are now a cool gray — a major shift from the golden yellow that Kennedy selected.

The room is reflective of the Obamas’ tastes, which favor abstract artists. Two paintings by the 20th century modernist Josef Albers — husband of Anni, whose work inspired the rug — are featured across from a large mirror acquired during a 1902 restoration of the White House by the Roosevelt administration.

Obama unveiled the new room Tuesday by surprising visitors on public tours of the White House and encouraging them to look in on the refurbished space.

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To: drewh

So now we have the only up side of Hillary getting elected .... she might steal this crap when she leaves.


61 posted on 03/25/2015 11:38:19 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: left that other site

The drapes are nice.

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Royal Purple?????


62 posted on 03/25/2015 11:38:27 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: jsanders2001

“thug rug”

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LOL!


63 posted on 03/25/2015 11:39:01 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Fresh Wind

That looks like the Spaghetti Factory on Laclede’s Landing


64 posted on 03/25/2015 11:39:25 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why was my first thought the movie “The In-Laws”?


65 posted on 03/25/2015 11:39:52 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: drewh

Hope it won’t be gold or red colored fabric with clear vinyl slip covers.


66 posted on 03/25/2015 11:39:56 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: drewh

The gayest administration in American history and they couldn’t have come up with a decent interior decorator?


67 posted on 03/25/2015 11:40:30 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: drewh

WOW! Looks like a Goodwill store.
I’m surprised moochelle hasn’t replaced the wood floor with linoleum.

Those paintings and rug DO NOT belong in that room.


68 posted on 03/25/2015 11:40:31 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: drewh

That rug will give some folks a seizure


69 posted on 03/25/2015 11:40:32 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: drewh
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Too bad she couldn't have gone with her 1st choice.

70 posted on 03/25/2015 11:40:43 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: left that other site

What got spilled on the rug?


71 posted on 03/25/2015 11:41:52 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Zathras
Or Pee-Wee's Playhouse?
72 posted on 03/25/2015 11:42:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Billthedrill

LOL!...............


73 posted on 03/25/2015 11:42:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: drewh

I’m surprised she didn’t bring in some hideous African tribal art.


74 posted on 03/25/2015 11:42:06 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: MHGinTN
Its “salvageable”. Dump the ugly paintings and put something more fitting to the elegance of the room, not something you find at a flea market bazaar.
75 posted on 03/25/2015 11:42:57 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Snickering Hound

I got to have dinner with Billy Dee Williams and Mort Sahl when they were backing Al Haig in 1987. Nice guys.


76 posted on 03/25/2015 11:43:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: LucyT; melancholy

I guess they play darts after dinner.

77 posted on 03/25/2015 11:44:04 AM PDT by azishot (God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal.)
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To: drewh

That picture links like something a slow, short bus kid made with spirograph.

Isn’t there something in the communist manifesto about promoting ugly art?

Ah... here it is:

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

Well done, Mooch, well done.


78 posted on 03/25/2015 11:44:06 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Billthedrill

Ha, I thought that was carnival spin art.


79 posted on 03/25/2015 11:44:36 AM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: BigEdLB

ROFL.
That “Mickey Blue Eyes” painting would have been an improvement!
Loved that movie.


80 posted on 03/25/2015 11:44:49 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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