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Design and Architecture
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...

14 min

'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...

14 min

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Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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