Ever wonder why the inside of the White House looks the way it does? The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, Library & Museum, and White House Historical Association welcomed authors James Archer Abbott and Elaine Rice Bachmann to discuss their book, Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration and Its Legacy. An illustrated chronicle of Jacqueline Kennedy’s restoration project, the book celebrates the sixty-year legacy of one of the most influential interior design endeavors in American history.
Order Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration on the White House Historical Association website here. Get 10% off your order until April 15, 2022. One per customer. Discount Code: FORDLBRY28
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When
March 25, 2022
Program Supporters
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
About James Archer Abbott
James Archer Abbott is a graduate of Vassar College (B.A.) and the State University of New York’s Museum Studies Program through the Fashion Institute of Technology (M.A.). Currently the executive director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware, Abbott has served as director of Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library, curator of American and European decorative arts for the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator and educator for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Boscobel House and Gardens, and Historic Hudson Valley. His publications include Jansen (Acanthus Press, 2006), Jansen Furniture (Acanthus Press, 2007), and Baltimore’s Billy Baldwin (Evergreen Museum & Library, 2010).
About Elaine Rice Bachmann
Elaine Rice Bachmann is a graduate of Indiana University (B.A.) and the University of Delaware, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (M.A). Currently deputy state archivist at the Maryland State Archives and secretary of the State House Trust, Bachmann has served as curator and director of the Maryland Commission on Artistic Property. She has written extensively about Maryland’s State House, Government House, and the state-owned art collection. She lives in Severna Park with her husband and two sons.
