9/25/04: Pickles decorates Lincoln Bedroom: "Gilded crowns, royal colors"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Whatever Election Day holds for her husband, Laura Bush is about to establish her own White House legacy in a bold transformation of the Lincoln Bedroom.

The pièce de résistance, both decoratively and symbolically, will be a carved bed canopy in the shape of a crown. It too has been sent for gilding. When affixed to the ceiling, the crown will support yards of regal purple satin over white lace, both trailing to the floor.

Gilded crowns and royal colors strike an unusual note in a house carefully stage-managed to symbolize the democracy. Neither element would have been acceptable to George Washington, who was advised to surround himself only with things that were "substantially good and majestically plain." Eagles were fine in "the President's House." Allusions to monarchy would have been anathema.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48972-2004Sep24.html

[babylonsister]

Another * who sullies everything they touch. nt

[acmavm]

1. That sounds downright tacky. But of course, it is Laura and after

all these years we're familiar with her sense of 'style' (for lack of a better word).

[oldtime dfl_er]

17. Thanks for posting this

I was looking for something to blog about this morning, and that was a good one!
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[wordpix]

2. King GeorgeW. Louis XIV and wife enjoying the privileges of VersaillesWH

while the rest of us struggle to pay rent, mortgage and put food on the table.

What, there's a war going on and you don't know it, Pickles?

[LiberalinNC]

3. Men dying in Iraq and she's worried about a decorating a bedroom.

:crazy:

[Burried News]

4. Majestically plain ...

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. Ya know, "Let them eat cake..."

Pickles and W both think they're royalty...this "crown bed" and all the tackiness that comes with it are proof positive of that. BTW, it sounds godawful...and I'm sure Lincoln would be furious that a room named after him would end up like that.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. The Lincoln Bed had a gilded crown above it...

...in Benjamin Harrison's day:


Fortunately, Theodore Roosevelt got rid of all the Victorian crap in 1902 and refurbed the WH closer to its original Federalist decor.

I really wish that she'd NOT fuck with OUR house!:grr:

[SpiralHawk]

7. Real Lincoln bedroom would have a straw tick, and log walls

with a Thunder Jug at the foot of the bed

pResident Gilded Chimpee would derive enormous benefit from sleeping in such plain circumstances

Tis a gift to be simple

[madame defarge]

8. Why the hell are they wasting money redecorating AGAIN??? nt

[Theres-a]

9. Somebody post that picture

Where she appears to be wearing a gown made of curtains.....

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. I thought only Scarlett O'Hara did that. NM

[Canuckistanian]

10. She must've used Elvis's interior decorator

I didn't know he was still around.

[madrchsod]

11. this was discussed back in 2004

it is historically correct. remember this was before the sofa went on her crusade to rid america of gangs and travel the world spreading the joy of being george bush`s wife

[Politicub]

12. Laura is a nutcase

It's proven out over and over again by stuff like this.

Aside from it being wasteful while we're running at the largest deficit in history, it sounds tacky and something befitting one of Saddam's old palaces.

[Javaman]

13. I can't wait for the next first lady or first man to come in and rip that

shit out. :) that will be a happy day indeed.

[kskiska]

14. It's all a myth - Lincoln never slept in that bed - or in that room

The bed was purchased by Mary Todd Lincoln, but Lincoln never got to sleep in it. All the "Lincoln Bedroom" is, is a room with no particular historical connection to Lincoln that is used to house Lincoln-era furniture. It's amusing how the wingnuts attach such a reverence to this room and bed.

[Bridget Burke]

15. If Laura gets tired of the regal purple satin & white lace...

She can have it run up into a lovely gown.

[merbex]

18. My husband and I were watching tve before Xmas,clicking around

we stumbled on Christmas at the White House

Laura's taste sucks

Tacky,tacky, tacky

Never mind the symbolism of spending all that money on tacky decorations while we are "at war" - she just has shit for taste and taste for shit

[Lisa]

19. substantial, good, majestic -- Bush is none of these!

Not even "plain" -- in the straightforward, unpretentious sense -- though perhaps if one takes the word to mean "unimaginative".

[HeeBGBz]

20. Gelded clowns

Ya don't say.

[karynnj]

21. Another reason we needed a Kerry win

I trust that Teresa would never have considered something like this. Even ignoring taste, this doesn't represent democracy.