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The White House in Miniature (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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The White House in Miniature (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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No doubt about it - this book, which presents (with infinite care)
the miniature White House constructed by John and Jan Zweifel (with
more than infinite care), is astonishing. The miniature White
House, built on a one-foot-to-one-inch scale, is beyond
astonishing, replicating each room of the real White House down to
floral arrangements, dining services, and, when possible, hand
carvings on table legs. Kathleen Culbert-Aguilar's photographs
(accompanied by Cooper Union professor Buckland's text) seem
designed to accomplish two things: first, to allow us access to
places, like the Reagans' bedroom, not included in the normal White
House tour; second, to make us wonder at the craftsmanship of the
replica. This she does by means of clever interventions like
putting a real poker hand (a fill house) in the model Green Room.
The persistence of the Zweifels, who first got the Kennedy
administration interested in the project but weren't allowed into
the White House to take the necessary measurements and pictures
until the Ford administration (Gerald Ford and his wife contribute
the foreword), is boggling. But isn't this fetishistic reverence
for executive wallpaper also a bit perverse? What does it mean that
we want to banish the presidency to Lilliput? And how come there
aren't any toilets? (Kirkus Reviews)
Considered to be one of the world's greatest miniature houses, the
replica is the result of over 30 years of research and construction
by the Zweifel family. The tiny, working telephones, hand-carved
chairs and tables, and miniature carpets that reproduce the
original stitch by stitch, are all proof of great craftsmanship and
minute attention to detail.
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