UNUSUAL MAISON JANSEN ILLUMINATING COFFEE TABLE, FRANCE c.1970

DESCRIPTION

A lovely Maison Jansen side table or coffee table, 1970s/80s, with one light points. A brass construction encases sections of amethyst to make a striking side table or coffee table. Of lovely proportions, a wonderful piece of interior design from the latter part of the last century giving a great retro feel and ambient lighting to any living space.

Maison 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. 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 as well as 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.

CONDITION

In Good Condition - wear consistent with age, one of the rubber protectors for the glass is missing, multiple chips on the octagonal glass (possibly not original glass).

SIZE

Width: 97cm
Height: 41cm
Depth: 97cm

SIZE WITHOUT GLASS

Width: 80cm
Height: 40cm
​Depth: 80cm