According to the Wash Post Style section, Laura B is redoing the Lincoln bedroom:
The pièce de résistance, both decoratively and symbolically, will be a carved bed canopy in the shape of a crown. It too has been sent for gilding. When affixed to the ceiling, the crown will support yards of regal purple satin over white lace, both trailing to the floor.
While I suspect the always pro-monarchy NY Times would have no problem with this, even the Post notes later in the piece:
Gilded crowns and royal colors strike an unusual note in a house carefully stage-managed to symbolize the democracy. Neither element would have been acceptable to George Washington, who was advised to surround himself only with things that were "substantially good and majestically plain." Eagles were fine in "the President's House." Allusions to monarchy would have been anathema.
Seems to me to be moving waaay beyond the subliminable.
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