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How Shonda Rhimes built her Oval Office
9 mins | Sep 2, 2020
The producer of Scandal on how her visits to Obama's White House left an everlasting impression on her. When Shonda Rhimes created the TV show Scandal's version of the White House, she took a page from Michael S. Smith's redecoration of Barack Obama's Oval Office. Now documented in the book Designing History, Sarah Medford explores in The Wall Street Journal the story behind Rhimes' re-creation.
