
Interior design junkies will
be interested in
this auction from
Scalamandre, the famous textile company. The manufacturer is opening up the
archives and offering historical fabrics, art work and other items. There will be three online auctions this year, the
first of which started on April 19. The current auction includes several White House fabric lots that were designed by
Mrs. Scalamandre for Jackie Kennedy's restoration. The auction also includes furniture from the Scalamandre Museum of
Textiles including a European side chair given to Franco Scalamandre by William Randolph Hearst. The piece shown here
is silk which was designed for chair seats in the Blue Room of the White House. It has a starting bid of $4500.