Trump’s design appointee wants to change the White House columns to be more ornate |
Trump’s design appointee wants to change the White House columns to be more ornate
The Commission of Fine Arts chair suggested the building’s columns be changed from Ionic to Corinthian to match the government’s other great buildings.
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The North and South Porticoes of the White House are lined by Ionic columns, a style recognized by its elegant scroll-shaped capitals, or ornaments, at the top. That could change if Rodney Mims Cook Jr., chair of the Commission of Fine Arts, gets his way.
Cook recently suggested the columns should be changed to the ornate Corinthian........