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Warner Brothers' rental supervisor, Ronnie Wexler, said portions of the Dave set go out all the time. Portions of the Dave Oval Office have been used as many as 25 times for films like The Pelican Brief and Clear and Present Danger, and for television shows.

 

Repeatedly storing and erecting the Dave set, however, has left it a little shopworn, partly because of the difficulty of storing an odd-shape set. There's no real convenient place to break the walls of an Oval Office, said Nelson Coates, the production designer for Murder at 1600, so you end up breaking the plaster.

 

For Murder at 1600, which stars Wesley Snipes as a police officer investigating the murder, Mr. Coates created a new Oval Office, entrance halls and the White House grand staircase.

 

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IN AN OVAL OFFICE SET, as in life, God is in the details. Ours is the most architecturally accurate, Mr. Coates said. In niches and alcoves, what had been regular shelves on other sets are really coffered octagons in ours. We have sliding doors that slide – in Warner Brothers' set, they were hinged. Joe Blow audience member may not go, 'Oh, that's wrong.' But a million visitors see the Oval Office every year.

 

Mr. Coates was one of them. We did a V.I.P. tour after doing just a general tour, on two different occasions, he said. And he did his homework, since the decor of the Oval Office changes with each President.

 

He avoided, however, emulating President Clinton's new color scheme and upholstery, which he describes as circus stripes.

 

It's a cream, gold and red with alternating-width bands, in Scalamandre fabric, he said. I guess they were thinking Presidential, but with the yellow drapes and the blue rug, it looks like you're at the circus. If we'd put Clinton's exact fabric on the sofas in our film, people would have thought we were mocking it. Instead Mr. Coates used a subdued stripe on the sofas and went more toward a Reagan model with dark blue drapes.

 

What about just using the real White House? We do get requests to film here, said Neel Lattimore, Hillary Rodham Clinton's press secretary. And we're as gracious as we can be, but the answer is no. The White House is a historical property, and it's not used for commercial purposes, he added. It's not a set. Besides, using it would put all these set designers out of business, and we're for jobs.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/movies/oval-offices-by-way-of-hollywood.html