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The Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room was designed for both dining and diplomacy. It was renovated in 1985 by Philadelphia architect John Blatteau.
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The Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room was designed for both dining and diplomacy. It was renovated in 1985 by Philadelphia architect John Blatteau.
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focal centerpiece is the Great Seal of the United States, rendered on the ceiling in detailed plasterwork and heightened in 24-carat oil gilding. Since 1789, the Secretary of State has been the official keeper of the Great Seal of the United States, making this symbol a befitting architectural reference to the office it serves.
Anchoring the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room is a Savonnerie-style carpet, custom-designed for the room in 1984 by the architect, which reflects elements from the Great Seal in it’s center. Earth and water are rendered in a stylized manner within the border, and the field of the carpet is decorated with fifty stars. In each of its corners, it is ornamented with trophies of the harvest, depicting the four crops most important to the early republic: corn, cotton, tobacco and rice and a little more to fill out the line.
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“The first official event on the eighth floor was a state dinner in January 1961 in honor of Queen Frederika of Greece. The Secretary of State at the time was Christian Herter, former Governor of Massachusetts. His wife, Mary Caroline, the hostess for the event, came in during the afternoon before the dinner to see the rooms, and I escorted her through them. The longer we spent in the very modern spaces, the farther her face fell.
Our tour ended in the ladies’ lounge. The upholstery and draperies were in the electric colors then popular. The lounge looked like Hollywood’s idea of the powder room of a gangster’s moll. Mrs. Herter exclaimed that as an American she had never been so mortified. Although I should have known better than to volunteer, having spent four years in the U.S. Army, I offered then to run a public campaign to furnish the rooms in a manner befitting America’s heritage.”
Clem Conger, Founding Curator
- Full view of the Salvar by John Swift in the Martha Washington Ladies Lounge.
- Detail photo of the Salvar by John Swift in the Martha Washington Ladies Lounge revealing the fine scroll work at the center of the platter with the words “PATOR UT POTLAR” inscribed along the bottom of the crest.
- This architectural photo captures the John Swift salvar as it is displayed within the corner hutch in the western vestibule of the the Martha Washington Ladies Lounge.
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Here is a paragraph: Anchoring the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room is a Savonnerie-style carpet, custom-designed for the room in 1984 by the architect, which reflects elements from the Great Seal in it’s center. Earth and water are rendered in a stylized manner within the border, and the field of the carpet is decorated with fifty stars. In each of its corners, it is ornamented with trophies of the harvest, depicting the four crops most important to the early republic: corn, cotton, tobacco and rice and a little more to fill out the line.
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