MAISON JANSEN FRENCH PALM TREE MIRROR LAMP ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU MODERN FRANCE 50s

Description: IMPORTANT ILLUMINATED PALM TREE WALL MIRROR DESIGNED BY THE WELL-KNOWN FRENCH DESIGNER MAISON JANSEN. (circa 1950s). COMPRISED OF BAMBOO AND BRASS. THE BRASS SHOWS PATINA AND WEAR FROM AGE. EACH PALM TREE HAS TWO HIDDEN LIGHT BULB SOCKETS REQUIRING FOUR BULBS IN TOTAL. THE BULBS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PURCHASE. IT WORKS PERFECTLY ON A NEWLY REWIRED ROTARY DIMMER SWITCH. WE ACQUIRED THIS MIRROR FROM AN ESTATE SALE IN LONG BEACH, CA. A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO OWN ONE OF MAISON JANSEN’S GREATEST CREATIONS. DIMENSIONS: 40” W x 24” H x 10” D More than any other design firm active between the 19th and 20th centuries, Paris-based Maison Jansen—or simply Jansen—was the creator of the period’s most dazzling backdrops. Founded in 1880, at the height of Beaux-Arts fashion, Jansen began to garner attention at first by word of mouth among the upper class in France’s Third Republic. By the turn of the 20th century, Jansen’s reputation was international, and the firm counted the monarchs of England, Belgium, Holland, and Spain among its clientele. From 1905 through the 1980s, Jansen dispatched its luxury services through a cluster of energetic satellite offices spanning North and South America, Europe, and Africa. And while the company finally closed the doors of its 9 rue Royale headquarters in 1989, Jansen’s evolving, iconic style— a mix of 18th-century Bourbon finery, Hollywood theatrics, and English countryhouse refinement—remains today the subject of much emulation and desire. In the 21st century, a mystique has grown around vintage Jansen designs that began with a series of celebrity auctions in the 1990s. The firm is now deeply associated with the mythology of love, power, and tragedy that surround its patrons: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Honorable Pamela Harriman, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to name a few. Surviving interiors designed by Jansen for monarchs, dictators, and social doyennes are now the focus of preservation projects and research, while the furniture and objets d’art are sought after and prized by contemporary designers, collectors, and decorative arts scholars alike. Befitting its rich heritage, the name “Jansen” has multiple connotations. First, it identifies a century-long, global offering of decorating services that focused on both historical revivals and contemporary trends, largely under the masterful direction of successive tastemaker-presidents Stéphane Boudin (1888-1967) and Pierre Delbée (1900-1974). Next, the name references a five-story Paris atelier (that by the 1930s employed up to 700 uniquely trained artisans) and satellite workshops in Buenos Aries and elsewhere, as well as their products—everything from beautifully distressed paneled rooms to thousands of unique furniture forms, lighting fixtures, and other accoutrements. “Jansen” also identifies a procurer of some of the finest European antiques of the 18th century, examples of which are now included in leading museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Lastly, “Jansen” is an umbrella under which some of the greatest designers of the 20th century partnered with the previously noted Boudin and Delbée, among them: Carlos Ortiz-Cabrera, Francis Chaillou, Harold Eberhard, Oliver Ford, Arthur Kouwenhoven, Claude Mandron, Serge Robin, and Henri Samuel. Thanks to the firm’s longevity, as well as its internationalism, characterization of its furniture is also multi-faceted. Jansen produced furniture in imitation of 18th-century Bourbon Court masterpieces, as well as other historically derived styles. At the same time, Jansen designers created furniture to please even the most contemporary tastes, referencing, among other styles, the Aesthetic Movement, Art Nouveau, Art Moderne, and Postwar Modern. Surviving interiors created by Jansen for monarchs, dictators, and social doyennes are now subjects of preservation and study. Today’s in-the-know collectors recognize three general categories of Jansen furniture, defined by ranges of quality and uniqueness. The finest consists of one-of-a-kind commissions, made for clients like the Shah and Shabanou of Iran, oil magnate Charles Wrightsman and his connoisseur wife, Jayne, or the Windsors. Definitively representing this level is the pair of polychrome painted commodes made in 1938 for the Duchess of Windsor’s Cap d’Antibes dressing room and auctioned at Christie’s New York in October 2008. Delicately painted works like these have no true rival; each example stands as a unique visual tribute to a client, and these are rare.

Price: 6000 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

End Time: 2024-02-27T20:16:35.000Z

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