Thomas Jayne
Thomas Jayne creates interiors and furnishings that reflect his passion and wide-ranging knowledge of classical traditions. His work seeks to further those traditions and highlight aspects with contemporary relevance. The results are designs that take inspiration from the past, yet feel fresh and possess a modern sense of comfort and style.
Jayne holds a Master’s degree in American Architecture and Decorative Arts from the Winterthur Museum program and a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. He has completed numerous fellowships and internships at America’s most prestigious museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Historic Deerfield, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution. Finally, he received his grounding in decoration from Parish-Hadley & Associates and Kevin McNamara, Inc. before launching his own firm in 1990.
Thomas Jayne Studio displays expertise in every aspect of interior decoration and product design. The studio has acquired prominence in several areas: historical research presenting art and antiques collection architectural planning and detailing, and color consultation. See the firm’s portfolio at thomasjaynestudio.com.
Cindy's SalonLink This | Email This | Comments (5) Modernism Week and the Frey HouseI am planning a trip later this month to California to speak about my book, "The Finest Rooms in America," and show some of my own work. While I am excited to do that, I am also looking forward to making a side trip to Palm Springs for Modernism Week. There will be two highlights to that trip. One will be hearing my friend Trina Turk speak about how the local Desert Modernism influenced... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (1) The Perfect Place for an Albert Paley SculptureI like decorating for collectors because they regularly bring the unexpected into our interiors. I am always delighted and surprised by objects they want to place in their rooms and enjoy the challenge of bridging them into the artistic vision of the space. I often point out that many collectors do not decorate, instead they just stack their collections into places without regard to arrangement,... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Chasing the Ideal: Hardware by P. E. GuerinI recently had an opportunity to take a tour of P. E. Guerin's workroom in the West Village. It is remarkable to find a place that still casts brass and makes custom decorative hardware, let alone in the midst of Manhattan. The city today has become wall to wall apartments and office towers with little industry in between, but P. E. Guerin perseveres in the same spot on Jane Street that it moved... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) The Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing InstrumentsI have been studying the fantastic Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments, housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia Universtiy. It is an amazing group of English, Continental, and American drafting tools and instruments dating from 1700 to 2004, acquired over a 40 year period by Mr. Alpern, a lawyer turned architect, architectural historian and preservationist.... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) Piranesi’s Fireplace EngravingsThe 20th century use of framed architectural plates from the 18th and 19th century for wall decoration has largely gone out of style. This is most likely due to the fact that they were overused and do not fit in the current dominate taste for modernism.On a recent stop at the house of a client of great taste, I revisited a group of prints from this category that continues to look lively and engagi... More |
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