Jackie and Cassini by Lauren Marino

Author:Lauren Marino
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780762461134
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2016-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

“I will never become stuffy but there is a dignity to the office that suddenly hits one.”

—Jackie

IN A LETTER TO CASSINI

“Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there. It would be a sacrilege merely to ‘redecorate’ it—a word I hate. It must be restored—and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship.”

—Jackie Kennedy

TO LIFE MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 1961

The first lady turned the White House inside out and searched far and wide for furnishings and art that reflected the country’s rich history. Well before her wildly popular nationally televised tour of the White House, she spent months and countless hours doing research, finding donors, and personally renovating and redecorating the mansion so that every piece had significance. Here she shows a James Monroe–era candelabrum.

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