Mayoral mansion dresses down for new occupant
[NEW YORK] Mayor Bill de Blasio never looked comfortable amid the formal interiors and ornate staterooms of Gracie Mansion, the museum-like residence where he and his family moved this week. Century-old chandeliers and antique cabinets are not exactly in keeping with the populist de Blasio image.
So to smooth their transition into grander confines, the de Blasios turned to a decorator that better reflected their unpretentious style: West Elm.
A popular Brooklyn-based purveyor of on-trend home pieces, West Elm said on Wednesday that it had donated US$65,000 worth of furniture so New York's first family could reimagine the mansion's upstairs residential quarters.
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