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Design and Architecture

Watergate Offices, Trump Hotel; 'The Price of Illusion'

Hosted by Frances Anderton Mar. 28, 2017
Joan Juliet Buck was fired from the helm of French Vogue and later wrote an ill-timed profile of a tyrant's wife. Now she examines her life in The Price of Illusion. And architecture meets politics in the Watergate complex and Trump's hotel in DC's Old Post Office Building.

Photo: The Old Post Office, originally designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, has been remade as the Trump International Hotel (Frances Anderton)

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Watergate Offices; Trump Hotel

t The lobby of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in the Watergate Office Building Photo by Frances Anderton Buildings can be architecturally significant, and...

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'The Price of Illusion'

In 2011, Vogue magazine published a profile of the first lady of Syria, Asma al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad. It was headlined "A Rose in the Desert." The flattering...

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Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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