Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
An epic campaign ended today as the first rolls of historic wallpaper were applied to the walls of the FDR Suite study. You may remember all the trials and tribulations we had in piecing together the pattern from fragments I discovered last summer behind the large radiator. Then Kari Pei, Head of Design at Wolf-Gordon [...]
Wallpaper At Last!
Tags: FDR suite wallpaper, Kari Pei, Li Chung Pei, Victorian interior design, Victorian wallpaper
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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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