In the book, her husband wrote that she had worked for the design firm Parish-Hadley and worked on the renovation of the Naval Observatory in Washington, the official residence of the U.S. vice president.

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In addition to Parish-Hadley, the Paleys hired Jansen the French design firm that had recently transformed the Kennedy White House to execute the architectural details, and, in a cameo appearance, Billy Baldwin, who reproduced a room he had decorated for the couple in their previous apartment at the St.

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