1960s Louis XIV Style Mirrored and Gilt Dining Table by Maison Jansen

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Once the world’s preeminent 20th-century interior design firm, Maison Jansen and its hundreds of craftspeople conjured up many iconic pieces … Read more Once the world’s preeminent 20th-century interior design firm, Maison Jansen and its hundreds of craftspeople conjured up many iconic pieces of furniture for its international clientele, from Egyptian royalty to American plutocrats. One legendary model was a voluptuous Louis XIV style dining table, which could be ordered with two or three pedestals and in myriad finishes. Irwin and Lane’s double-pedestal example, which features its original mirrored-glass top, was made in the 1960s in Argentina, where Jansen maintained an active office in Buenos Aires. (Other satellite offices were located in Cairo, Manhattan, Havana, and points beyond.) The table is documented in two magisterial books about Jansen, both written by design scholar and museum curator James Archer Abbott, and variations graced the dining rooms of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Paris) and Jayne and Charles Wrightsman (New York City). See less