Saturday, September 12th, 2009
It all started so simply. Last fall while photographing the FDR Suite, I noticed some curious bits of something dangling behind the large radiator in the main study. What could they be? Those infamous Harvard dust motes again? Ah no! Historical clues, perhaps? The mind raced…. in vain. Most turned out to be prosaic modern [...]
Piecing Together FDR’s Rooms, Literally
Tags: 19th Century American Art, 19th century interior design, 19th century wallpaper, FDR at Harvard, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kari Pei, Michael Weishan, Victorian interior design, Victorian wallpaper, Wolf-Gordon
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