Lifting the Curtains at Corcoran's Salon Dore; Restored Windows Get The Royal Treatment

The Washington Post | November 10, 2001| | Copyright

Can 18th-century windows find happiness with 21st-century curtains?

They have at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, where the perfect crimson, champagne and cream silks with golden passementerie have just been hung in the Salon Dore.

The curtains, which were woven in France and arrived just before Halloween, are the finishing touch to a decade-long restoration of the antique reception room. They are a fittingly lavish tribute to William A. Clark, the Francophile collector, industrialist and senator who brought the room to America and bequeathed it to the Corcoran in 1925.

The Salon Dore was a ...

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