Cool rendition of the Oval Office through the last 15ish Presidents

[Calista241]

Last edited Tue Sep 7, 2021, 10:22 AM - Edit history (1)

And man, those couches in Bill Clinton's Oval Office are hideous.

[Walleye]

1. You don't need a caption to spot the one from TFG

[CottonBear]

3. Four chairs lined up directly in front of the desk. Look at me!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

6. And the gold curtains.

The office looked pretty much unchanged until the Truman administration.

I like the dark blue carpet President Biden has in his office.

[lagomorph777]

7. Yeah - four decades of the same rug. Ewww.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "I like the dark blue carpet President Biden has in his office"

It looks like that might have been the same one that Clinton used (although the colors in the rendering of the outer border of it looks a little different, but it appears to be the same rug).

[MoonchildCA]

9. Biden used both the carpet and the drapes from the Clinton administration.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Thanks for confirming what I thought I was seeing!

[CottonBear]

2. That is very interesting.

I really like President Carter’s interior design layout the best. It divides the room into two separate seating areas while providing a large group seating area on the presidential desk side of the Oval Office.

Those green walls and carpets were there for a really long time along with sparse furnishings.

[Rebl2]

5. Oh those

green walls and carpet. Takes me back to the first carpet my parents put in the house in the sixties into the seventies-very green.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Should include Kanye West pounding on the Oval Office desk saying MF and BS with Trump looking on ap

Should include Kanye West pounding on the Oval Office desk saying MF and BS with Trump looking on approvingly.

[Tommymac]

11. Where's The Goya Beans in TFG's?

Enquiring minds want to know.

[Staph]

12. I was trying to figure out why the Truman Oval Office was so different,

after four decades of the same green walls, green drapes, green rug?

Then it dawned on me, the White House was gutted and rebuilt from the inside out during the Truman administration. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House#Truman_reconstruction)

If you look carefully, there are new built-in bookshelves on the sides of the door. I suspect that there were many other cosmetic changes that are not visible in the digital recreation.


(One of my favorite websites to waste time in is http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/ - loads of pictures, architectural drawings, etc. And the creators, for the most part, have ignored the Trump years!)