Top opposite: Henry Francis du Pont, right, receives the
Right: Fabric samples for the Red Room.
Overleaf: Perhaps the most striking of all the Kennedy transformations was the Red Room. The design motif was inspired by American cabinetmaking of the 1820s.
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Below opposite: The French interior decorator, StĂŠphane Boudin, photographed by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in late 1961. He is shown in the Treaty Room as it was being decorated under his direction.
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first Thomas Jefferson Award from Arturo Pini di san Miniato, president of the National Society of Interior Designers. Du Pont was honored for his work as chairman of the White House Decoration Committee, to which First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy appointed him.