That sketch above was done in 2016 as a possible re-design of the Oval Office by Donald Trump. It is much too restrained.
I mean, look at these latest details of his actual decorating:
Here’s the 2016 story in the Hollywood Reporter:
“Louis XIV’s decoration of Versailles is an expression of the king’s right to rule, the opposite of the president’s role in American democracy. Trump’s decor evokes third-world dictatorship. It reminds me of Robert Mugabe’s palace in Zimbabwe.” Peter York, author of Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World’s Most Colorful Despots, which deconstructs elements of despotic decor, adds: “Indeed, Trump’s own penthouse conforms completely to my recipe for a dictatorial place.”
“I feel very classy right now … like a big railing covered with brass or a pillar that looks like it’s made of marble,” was Donald Trump‘s non sequitur response to a question about Common Core educational standards during the Miami GOP debate in March. But his words could have applied to a description of his 30,000-square-foot penthouse occupying Trump Tower’s 66th through 68th floors. There, amid gilt furniture, diamond-and-gold-plated double doors and, yes, pillars made of marble, Trump, 69, lives with his wife, Melania, 45, and 10-year-old son, Baron, under Versailles-inspired painted ceilings…
If the Republican frontrunner is elected to office, expect to see gilt galore. “A president can go into any room and make any changes he or she sees fit, without qualification,” says Seale. “If you don’t like the Red Room red, then you can redo the entire room in chintz with no red. But the truth is, most presidents are so busy, they don’t have time to fool with the decor. Right now, the White House is essentially the same as when Richard Nixon lived there.
Melania, who studied architecture and design at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia (but left to model before graduating), also appears to have a penchant for all that glitters. “For season five, I created the Apprentice set and the residents’ homes in the style of the Trumps’ penthouse,” says Van Patter. “Melania called me after the install and said, ‘We love the gold antiques and cherubs and want to order more from wherever you got them.’ I call it Trump-a-coco.”
Technically, the penthouse owes less to the Rococo school and is more “influenced by the French Baroque Louis XIV architectural style through a prism of the 1980s,” says David Desmond, an L.A.-based decorator known for French-period interiors in large-scale residences of 30,000 square feet…
Today they put up gold and white striped umbrellas in the new driveway that used to be the Rose Garden.
Classy….