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Published on: 10/10/2001
Last Visited: 7/9/2005
Thomas Jayne
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Thomas Jayne
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Thomas Jayne - Mr. Wharton's Den
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Mr. Wharton's Den by Thomas Jayne
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Mr. Wharton's Den by Thomas Jayne
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Thomas Jayne
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Thomas Jayne
We have made the focus of this room a practical, albeit luxurious, cabinet created to recall Mr. Wharton's management of the estate and to reflect beauty in design that the Whartons would expect."- Thomas Jayne
The quiet intelligence of Thomas Jayne's work is thoroughly grounded in classical design and illuminated by his dry wit.
He holds a Master's degree in American Architecture and Decorative Arts from Winterthur and a BA in Architecture from the University of Oregon.He honed his craft working for Parish-Hadley and Associates, Kevin McNamara, Christie's, The Cooper-Hewitt, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A typical professional relationship for Jayne began with a request for advice about reupholstering an Early American sofa.
It transformed into a full renovation program to accommodate and display the client's collections of Federal-style furniture and ancient Indian and Himalayan art."We used decoration to bridge his great collection and his family house," Jayne recalls.
For another of his clients, Jayne refurbished the rectory of New York's Church of St. Mary the Virgin.
He describes the rectory's condition: "It wasn't in 'receiving order,' as my grandmother used to say."Constrained by a church-mouse budget, Jayne focused on elements that cost little but made a big difference.A believer in "organizing spaces with color, as they did in the 18th and 19th century," he worked hard to create beautiful paint colors.