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Oval Office makeover widely criticized

The makeover of the Oval Office has been widely panned in press reports and on the blogosphere for being too casual. Washington (CNN) – The makeover of the Oval Office has been widely panned in press reports and on the blogosphere for being too casual and for its bland color palette but White House press [...]

NYT: Designers, pundits rate Oval Office redo

NYT: Ho-hum Oval Office? Arianna Huffington, Ann Coulter and top designers react to the makeover unveiled this week. New York Times - Huffington Post - Politics - Ann Coulter - People

The Trouble with Building a City: Oakland's art foundries forge ahead despite setbacks

A remote control hot tub still sits in the NIMBY's yard. A giant cereal bowl with pillows in magically delicious shapes lay in waiting for Burning Man. Tomorrow afternoon, a semi-truck will haul them from industrial Oakland to the desert plain of Black Rock City. read more

The Audacity of Taupe

THE Oval Office has been tweaked, in a makeover orchestrated by the California decorator Michael Smith. In response, television audiences and the blogosphere seemed to produce a collective yawn: too brown, too dowdy, too ho hum, they pronounced as one.