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Pair of French Louis XVI Style Carved-Wood Cream-Lacquered Settees, Jansen Attr.
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A Fine Pair of French Louis XVI Style Carved-wood Cream-Lacquered Settees, probably by Maison Jansen. The rectangular shaped Love Seats, each with scrolled carved armrests ending with rosettes, upholstered on all sides and with cushions and padded bolsters, both upholstered in a later striped burgundy and white satin silk and raised on four tapered fluted legs. Circa: Paris, 1900's.
Maison Jansen (House of Jansen) was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen. Jansen is considered the first truly global design firm, serving clients in Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East. This House was located at 23, rue de l'Annonciation, Paris, and closed in 1989.
History
From its beginnings Maison Jansen combined traditional furnishings with influences of new trends including Anglo-Japanese style, the Arts and 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.
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, 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.
After Stéphane Boudin's death in 1967, colleague Pierre Delbée took over the business. Maison Jansen came under new ownership in 1979 and finally closed in 1989.
References: A collector's guide "Maison Jansen"
Measures: Height: 29 inches (73.7 cm)
Width: 59 1/4 inches (150.5 cm)
Depth: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm)
Seat Height: 20 inches (50.8 cm).
- Attributed to:Maison Jansen (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 59.25 in (150.5 cm)Depth: 29.25 in (74.3 cm)Seat Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)
- Style:Louis XVI (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 1900s
- Condition:Reupholstered. Wear consistent with age and use. Minor fading. A truly beautiful & very decorative pair of settees. Overall condition is great. The silky fabric, which has very vibrant colors & it's in good (used) condition, has some minor wear and discoloration, mainly on the lower front. Please view all images.
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: Ref.: A26811stDibs: LU1796233535852
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