Product Description

Jansen Furniture, the companion volume to Acanthus Press 2006 Jansen, presents over 600 photographs and illustrations from the archives of the celebrated firms workrooms. For the first time unique furniture designs have been identified with specific commissions and are presented here both as individual pieces and in situ, revealing the firms gift for translating the personalities and ambitions of its clients into a vocabulary of silks, mirrors and pedigreed woodwork. Jansen Furniture is an elegant design resource that affords the 21st century designer and furniture collector an inspiring look an authentic and revival furnishings designed to transform any period, modern, and eclectic interior.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #210026 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Released on: 2007-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Review
A must-have for any library of the decorative arts, or for any person fascinated by the history of interior decoration... --Veranda

About the Author
James Archer Abbott is curator of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, as well as an independent author in the fields of design and the applied arts. He has previously held the positions of Curator of Decorative Arts for the Baltimore Museum of Art and Curator of Collections and Coordinator of Education for Boscobel Restoration, Inc. Mr. Abbott is the author of Jansen and is the co-author, with Elaine Rice, of Designing Camelot: The Kennedy Restoration of the White House.

A graduate of Vassar College and the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, he is a lecturer in the field of decorative arts, specializing in the history of presidential taste and 20th century design.