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Pair of Louis XV Style Gilt & Painted Carved Armchairs, Attributed Maison Jansen
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A fine pair of French Louis XV style gilt and green-cream painted carved Fauteuils armchairs, attributed to Maison Jansen. The arched back frame crowned with carvings of flowers with open arm rests and raised on cabriolet legs and fitted with a cushion, both upholstered in a recent velvet, circa 1920s.
Maison Jansen (House of Jansen) was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen and continuing in practice until 1989. Jansen is considered the first truly global design firm, serving clients in Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East by 1900.
History
From its beginnings Maison Jansen combined traditional furnishings with influences of new trends including Anglo-Japanese style, the Arts & Crafts movement, and Turkish style. The firm paid great attention to historical research with which it attempted to balance clients' desires for livable, usable, and often dramatic space. Within ten years the firm had become a major purchaser of European antiques, and by 1890 had established an antiques gallery as a separate firm that acquired and sold antiques to Jansen's clients and its competitors as well.
In the early 1920s Jean-Henri Jansen approached Stéphane Boudin, who was then working in the textile trimming business owned by his father Alexandre Boudin, and brought him on-board. Accounts of the arrangement vary. Speculation existed that Boudin was able to provide financial solvency to the prominent but capital-poor atelier. Boudin's attention to detail, concern for historical accuracy, and ability to create dramatic and memorable spaces brought increasing new work to the firm. Boudin was made director and presided over an Expansion of the firm's offices and income.
Furniture
Not originally equipped with its own workrooms for producing furniture the firm began by relying upon antiques and the furniture contracted to outside cabinetmakers. By the early 1890s Maison Jansen had established its own manufacturing capacity producing furniture of contemporary design, as well as reproductions, primarily in the Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Directoire, and Empire styles.
Work
Throughout the firm's history, it employed a traditional style drawing upon European design, but influence of contemporary trends including the Vienna Secession, Modernism, and Art Deco has also appeared in Jansen interiors and in much of the custom furniture the firm produced between 1920 and 1950.
Under Boudin's leadership, Maison Jansen provided services to the royal families of Belgium, Iran, and Serbia; Elsie de Wolfe, the German Reichsbank during the period of National Socialism; and Lady Olive Baillie's Leeds Castle in Kent, England. The firm's most published work was a project by Boudin and Paul Manno, the head of Jansen's New York office, for the U.S. White House during the administration of John F. Kennedy. At the same time, Jansen completed the interior of the motor yacht Chambel IV, now renamed NorthWind II. Northwind II is one of the few remaining complete Jansen commissions.
References
Abbott, James Archer. Jansen Furniture. Acanathus Press: 2007.
Abbott, James Archer. Jansen. Acanthus Press: 2006.
Abbott James A., and Elaine M. Rice. Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House
Restoration. Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1998.
Abbott, James A. A Frenchman in Camelot: The Decoration of the Kennedy White House by
Stéphane Boudin. Boscobel Restoration Inc.: 1995.
Hampton, Mark. Legendary Decorators of the Twentieth Century. Doubleday: 1992.
Pegler, Martin. The Dictionary of Interior Design. Fairchild Publications: 1983.
Architectural Digest. Revival of the Fittest. Page 82-87 Conde Nast: August 2011 edition
Height 42 inches (106.7 cm)
Width 30 1/2 inches (77.5 cm)
Depth 30 1/2 inches (77.5 cm)
Seat height 22 1/2 inches (57.2 cm).
- Dimensions:Height: 42 in (106.68 cm)Width: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)Depth: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)Seat Height: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Style:Louis XV (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 1920s
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor fading. A truly beautiful and very impressive pair of armchairs. Overall condition is very good with very minor touch ups. Upholstery is recent. Please view all images.
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
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