Jackie Kennedy was not only a popular first lady of the United States of America, she was a legendary fashion icon, and her taste in aesthetics was the envy of everyone in turn. When John and Jackie took over the White House in 1961, the new first lady filled her temporary home with art and sophisticated design. See how elegant the White House was during the Jackie Kennedy era.
Where did she get her inspiration from? one of the most elegant US First Ladies of all time? Jackie Kennedy found inspiration in his love for French culture and style, so it is for renovation Red rooms, Blue rooms, The Lincoln Rooms and Treaty Room (rooms for agreements) hired a French interior designer Stéphane Boudin.
Jackie was in charge of the private rooms American designer Sister Parish, which, among other things, took care of their house in Georgetown. "I want our private spaces to be our paradise - but we need to use as much as possible of the things that are already here and buy as little new as possible, because I want to spend most of the money on the public spaces below, which you and I will be proud of," he wrote Jackie Kennedy in a letter to Sister Parish at the start of the renovation. But already in the first two weeks, their available funds, 50 thousand US dollars, spent on private spaces.
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In addition to Jackie adding private kitchen, storage and dining room for the first family, is responsible for major changes initiated with a specific purpose in public spaces. She left her personal taste behind all over the White House and made sure it reflected her refined taste all previous White House administrations and not just her husband's administration.
Arranged private and public spaces, which Jackie Kennedy is credited with, give a rare and personal view of a woman behind the glorious title of Mrs. John F. Kennedy, but they are also the inspiration she has still as valid today as it was in 1962, when Jackie showed the public the White House through television sets.
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