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| I had the pleasure of restoring these antique Chinese panels for Thomas Jayne |
Congratulations to
Thomas Jayne for winning the
Arthur Ross Excellence Award for Interior Design, announced by
ICAA today. It's no surprise really, as Jayne and his team have been producing stunning interiors informed by history yet resolutely facing the future, for over two decades.
Schooled with the likes of
Parish-Hadley and
Kevin McNamara (who once quipped that "rich people don't need towel bars because they never hang up their towels"), and having received a scholarly education at Winterthur, the Met and the Getty, Jayne was a shoo-in for the
Architectural Digest Top 100 list of best decorators in America.
Join us on February 28th as we attend Jayne's
lecture in promotion of his new(ish) monograph,
American Decoration: A Sense of Place, published by
Monacelli in 2012.
His traditional schooling might otherwise imply the production of dry "period" rooms, but Jayne is always conscious of the current time and place. And that place, for him, is America. In his most recent book he traces his lineage back 400 years in America, through each of his family's homes, citing the likes of America's very first interior designer, Elsie De Wolfe, as influences. He refers to her ability to reference and assimilate European taste and style into something quintessentially American, and while he allows that there is no such thing as an absolute definition of American decoration, it is something he consciously strives to achieve in his own work.
He also, somehow, finds time to write weekly for his
blog, for a personal glimpse into the working mind of one of America's top designers.
Jayne also authored the renowned
Finest Rooms in America, showcasing the very best in interior and architectural design, from classics like Frank Lloyd Wright and Frances Elkins, to contemporary designers such as Bunny Williams, John Saladino, and of course, Albert Hadley.
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