Welcome Guest Search | Active Topics | Log In | Register

Can You Identify the Licoln Bedroom Rugs?
Guest
#1 Posted : Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:24:28 PM(UTC)
Rank: Guest
Groups:

Joined: 2/9/2008(UTC)
Posts: 803
Points: 3,293
During her tenure as First Lady, Laura Bush restored The Lincoln Bedroom, and with impressive fidelity, it appears, from the fabulous, recent C-SPAN series U can see on their website. I recorded it.

Homage to Mary Lincoln's expensive taste and profligacy.....including The infamous Bed (in which one of their sons died, she never went into the room again).....but many splendid items in this fine Victorian room. Not Belter, but nobody need complain I think. That is wicked awesome center table, boy.

In this video, from the brief glimpses of the carpets therein, can anyone identify either? Did they replicate things or are they actual antiques?
http://whitehouse.c-span...oom/Lincoln-Bedroom.aspx

Some White house provenance and trivia: each President "designs," orders and puts down his or her own rug in the Oval Room. W was apparently obeseed by his...with sunny yellow "optimism." Din help much, right?

Harry Truman, I recently learned, far more acute 7 detail oriented than I could have known, noticed the eagle centering on these rugs, and in the Presidential seal per se, was facing the arrows. He changed it so the eagle, after 1945, always faces the olive branch.

Many controversies and apocryphal accounts of this chronology of this survive to this day.

As for the upcoming Oval Office rug, rumor has it that The Obamababe will retain the eagle as it is now, facing the olive branch, but in place of the arrows, he will commission a B-Ball net to be woven into the seal on the rug. OK, maybe I made that up :d/

http://www.snopes.com/hi...ry/american/turnhead.asp




Sponsor  
 

Love the Rug Rag Forums?

Register above, then purchase a monthly Forum Pass for Full Access

Users browsing this topic
Guest
Forum Jump  
You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.

Powered by YAF | YAF © 2003-2010, Yet Another Forum.NET
This page was generated in 0.041 seconds.