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Barack Obama, Design Critic

US President Barack Obama speaks on the economy after touring the Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane production facility in Everett, Washington, February 17, 2012. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
“Did you see that coffee table Grace Bonney found at Brimfield? So cute!” Photo: SAUL LOEB/2012 AFP

One of the stops on Barack Obama’s fund-raising tour the other night was a $10,000-a-head party at the Upper East Side home of his interior decorator, Michael Smith (who also was the tastemaker behind John Thain’s infamous 2008 office renovation). Obama, it seems, believes himself to have a refined eye for interior design. The Post:

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If only we knew what “this” was! A too-too bit of wallpaper? A frame cluster? A Noguchi coffee table?

Barack Obama, Design Critic