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Thomas Jayne's "alter ego best friend" as a child had a mother, Ms. Kahn,"who was always doing something creative," says Jayne, "like painting her window shades in the style of Picasso." Although he couldn't know it at the time, Ms. Kahn would turn out to be an important influence on his future career. One day she asked Jayne what he was going to be when I grew up, and he said, "A lawyer." "No," was her reply: "You're going to be a decorator."

The "benefit of living with artistic people"-not just Ms. Kahn but also his own family made him the perfect candidate for a two-year course of study at Winterthur, the famous American decorative arts museum and former home of Henry Francis DuPont, to whom Jayne attributes his color sense. His education continued when he move to New York, where, he says "just being around [mentors] Albert Hadley and Sister Parrish was important."

Jayne's clients tend to be Anglophiles, and though he sees himself happiest in eighteenth-century France, when "kings put a lot of resources into the decorative arts, " don't box him in. "I love to compare historic places built during the same period. An English castle, French chateau and a Spanish palace can influence me equally."

Thomas Jayne Studio, Inc.
136 East 57th Street
Suite 1704
New York, NY 10022
212-838-9080
www.thomasjaynestudio.com

Member Since

Feb 22, 2006

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