Jansen Furniture

By James Archer Abbott

20th Century Decorators series

8½ x 11 inches, 368 p.p.

Over 600 illustrations in color and duotone

Cloth, dust jacket

ISBN-10: 0-926494-45-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-926494-45-9

September 2007

At a time when period French and English furniture has regained its appeal, inspiring a generation of contemporary designers to seek aesthetic and engaging solutions to modern life, Jansen Furniture presents a dazzling array of chairs, tables, sofas, beds, and decorative objects by the 20^th century's most influential revivalist decorating house. With a client list that included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Shah and Shahbanou of Iran, and President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Maison Jansen designed custom furnishings for interiors that celebrated the firm's lavish aesthetic of Bourbon historicism combined with Hollywood-style glamour. In its workshops on rue Saint-Sabin in Paris, Jansen employed hundreds of skilled designers and craftsmen—cabinetmakers, upholsterers, bronze workers, carvers, and gilders—who created exquisite furniture to fill the interiors of their illustrious clientele.

Jansen Furniture, the companion volume to Acanthus Press' 2006 Jansen, presents over 600 photographs and illustrations from the archives of the celebrated firm's workrooms. For the first time unique furniture designs have been identified with specific commissions and are presented both as individual pieces and in situ, revealing the firm's gift for translating the personalities and ambitions of its clients into a vocabulary of silks, mirrors, and pedigreed woodwork. Jansen Furniture is an elegant design resource and an inspiring look at authentic and revival furnishings designed to transform any traditional, modern, or eclectic interior.

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"A must-have for any library of the decorative arts, or for

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