Maison Jansen
Medium: Black-lacquer and gilt-bronze ornaments and sabots
Dimensions: 16 in high x 35.5 in wide x 20 in deep
For the better part of a century, Maison Jansen was a major force in French design and decor. The firm’s work was celebrated at every defining show of the early 20th century, from the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the 1925 Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Pairs, and New York’s World’s Fair in 1938. Thereafter, its offices executed some of the most elegant post-war interiors across four continents—those of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, C. Z. Guest, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, to name but a few.