Maison Jansen

The firm paid great attention to historical research with which it attempted to balance clients' desires for livable, usable, and often dramatic space.

Boudin's attention to detail, concern for historical accuracy, and ability to create dramatic and memorable spaces brought increasing new work to the firm.

Under Boudin's leadership, Maison Jansen provided services to the royal families of Belgium, Iran, and Serbia; Elsie de Wolfe, and Lady Olive Baillie's Leeds Castle in Kent, England.

The firm's most published work was a project by Boudin and Paul Manno, the head of Jansen's New York office, for the U.S. White House during the administration of John F. Kennedy.

At the same time, Jansen completed the interior of the motor yacht Chambel IV, now renamed Northwind II.

The White House Red Room as designed by Stéphane Boudin during the administration of John F. Kennedy . Boudin furnished the room primarily in the American Empire style with many pieces by the cabinetmaker Charles-Honoré Lannuier . Decorative tapes for the Napoleonic campaign style drapes were woven by the firm Tassinari et Chatel.