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"Jansen Decoration" 1971

1971

ABBOTT, James Archer [323] pp. Acanthus Press 2006 12 1/4" x 10 1/2" Fine/ Fine JANSEN is the first comprehensive study of Maison Jansen - the most celebrated decorating house o...

w/ 356 lots Sotheby Parke Bernet New York October 8-9, 1976 9 1/4" x 8 3/4" Ronald Tree was a former editor of Forum Magazine who had moved to England in the 1930s and set up residence in the magnificent Ditchley Park Manor. A member of Parliament, Tree was also a friend of Churchill, who visited Ditchley Park often during the Second World War. After the war the Trees packed up the “country house” contents of the manor and moved it to New York, where they lived until the contents were sold at this auction. A wonderful auction of “country manor” furnishings and decorations. Churchill smoked and drank in these chairs... While involved with Huston and married to FitzGerald, Marietta began an affair with Ronald Tree, who was a grandson of retail magnate Marshall Field and MP for Harborough, Leicestershire. Tree and Peabody divorced their spouses at the end of World War II and married on July 26, 1947. Marietta moved into Tree's home, Ditchley Park, but found herself bored with English country life. Tree and most of his friends were Conservatives, and Democrat Marietta again found herself politically isolated. Their daughter Penelope was born in 1949. Short of money, Tree sold Ditchley and agreed to return to New York City with Marietta, her daughter Frances Fitzgerald and their own daughter, future '60s fashion model Penelope Tree...

Delightful & whimsical decoupage panel by the late Mr David W Read of East Aurora, NY depicting an English country house estate interior! Image Sz: 10-1/2"H x 16"W

SAEKS, Diane Dorrans [240] pp. Rizzoli 2012 11 1/4" x 10 1/8" The first-ever compilation of the luxurious interiors from the influential designer and philanthropist Ann Getty. F...

Monograph on the renowned Paris-based interior decoration office Maison Jansen, founded in 1880 by Jean Henri Jansen. Published in 2007 by Acanthus Press with text by James Archer Ab...

This hand-printed screen print, titled Diagonal, was created by Jurgen Peters in 1979. Published by Editions Limited and printed on-site at the gallery in San Francisco on thick art ...

This book presents a dazzling array of furniture chairs, tables, sofas, beds and decorative objects designed and created by one of the 20th century's most influential revivalist decorating houses, who created exquisite furniture to fill the homes of their illustrious clientele which included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Shah of Iran...

Archival Pigment Print