Renwick’s “Something of Splendor” offers a rare inside look at White House decorative arts
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The coverlet that first lady Grace Coolidge spent two years crocheting for the Lincoln Bedroom is one of 95 objects in the Renwick Gallery's exhibit "Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House" that opens Saturday.
Coolidge was hoping the 1927 bedspread she embroidered with eagles and shields and her name would start a tradition among first ladies.
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