White House Yellow Oval Room velvet

Velvet design 3378 is among the most famous products of Tessitura Bevilacqua, as it was used to furnish the Yellow Oval Room of the White House in Washington. The archive contains a letter sent on 2 December 1935 by the American Consulate General in Naples, in which it is asked whether the Tessitura can produce a fabric with design 3378 (of which a green sample is enclosed) that is not in pure silk, a material considered by the client to be too expensive and not very resistant. [Source: Historical Archive section 1905-1945, correspondence, letter 2047]. Also for the American market, the archive contains a letter from 1938 from the Hayden Company of New York, requesting 12 metres. [Source: Historical Archive section 1905-1945, correspondence, letter 3909]. Finally, the presence of 3378 velvet on the American market is attested by a 1959 order from Scalamandré, who wanted 100 meters. [Source: Historical archive section 1946-1988, technical archive, n. 816]