Maison Jansen’s Palm Trees

A huge personal favorite of ours (the KOTUR store here in Hong Kong features several of them). Maison Jansen’s bronze palm trees are a surefire way to bring some Hollywood style glamour home. Designed in the 1970’s, Maison Jansen’s range of palm tree lamps, sculptures and tables became instant hits and still prove to be huge collectibles today. It isn’t surprising really. The French design house launched back in 1880 was responsible for some of the most iconic and luxuriant interiors of the last century including the Kennedy’s White House, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s Paris apartment and projects for everyone from Coco Chanel to the Shah of Iran. Whilst the design firm itself may have closed in 1989, its influence is still felt all over the world – not least through the bronze palm jungle they left behind.

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