Yellow Oval Room

The Yellow Oval Room (the oval yellow piece) is an oval part on the second floor of the White House, place of residence of the president of the United States. The part is used for small receptions and the reception of Heads of States right before a dinner of state. One reaches the part starting from the corridor of the second stage on the northern side of the part. Three large windows open towards the south with sight on the lawn of the south and the Parc of the President. A door with two leaves in the west, with the flags of the United States and the badges of the presidency on each side leads to rooms of the president and a First lady, living rooms private and accompanying documents.

Furniture

The oldest description of the part dates from the administration John Adams and describes it like a living room of ladies. The part was papered of yellow paper with gilded stars and a series of crimson pieces of furniture. This furniture, probably a mixture of styles Louis XVI and Hepplewhite came from the house of the president to Philadelphia. The part was successively used as library and private living room of family.

After the construction of the Western Wing in 1902 and the removal of the offices out of the residence, this part oval was again used like living room. Franklin Roosevelt made use of it like office inside its residence. Following the rebuilding by Truman the part was again used for receptions of state and entertainments. For the period of the administration Kennedy the part was furnished with the majority with the pieces of furniture currently being there. The current appearance of the part dates from work of the interior designer American Sister Parish which painted it in yellow. The French interior designer Stephan Boudin worked on the basis of Parish, replacing the furniture of style hotel of Truman by old movable truths. Furniture is for the majority of the style Louis XVI, made up during the restoration of the White House of Jacqueline Kennedy. Two small green marble columns were drawn by Stephan Boudin to hold of the Candélabre S.

During the administration Nixon, other pieces of furniture of time were bought, as well for the stages of representation as for those intended for the family. Yellow Ovale Room was arranged again in a more academic style by the conservative of Nixon, Clement Congers, and the interior designer Edward Vason Jones. Jones replaced the simple curtains posed by Sister Parish by those which are there currently, but striped coral, larger (they recover the woodworks framing the windows). These new curtains decrease the impression height of the part. During the administration Casing, a great number of American paintings of impressionstes, inter alia Mary Cassatt, was bought and hung in this part like in the central hall.

History

January 1st, 1801, before even as the part is finished, John Adams gave the first reception in the room indicated at the time under the name upstairs oval parlor (the living room oval on the floor). In 1809 Dolley Madison decorated the part with yellow Damas.

In 1851 Abigail Fillmore accepted Congress what to buy books. The first Bibliothèque of the White House was established in this part. The Harrisons continued to use the part like library and family living room and in 1889 installed there the first Christmas tree of the White House.

Franklin D. Roosevelt transformed the part to install its office there. It is here that it learned on December 7th, 1941 the Japanese attack from Pearl Harbor. The secret services moved away its table from the window by security measure. Harry Truman continued to use the part like office and opened a door with a balcony which he added southern part in 1948, called Truman balcony (balcony of Truman). Following the rebuildings of Truman the part was decorated by B. Altman and Company with New York with reproductions with traditional furniture. The following presidents made use of the part like living room for official receptions and used the Treaty Room, just in the east, like private office.

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