Maison Jansen Palm Trees Floor Lamp

Materials: Square brass base in wood (fibreboard) with etched brass plates on the outside. White glued pebbles on top. Burned brass leaves and trunk made of many cut leaves. 3 Bakelite E27 sockets.

Width: ∅ +- 88 cm / 34.64”

Base: 33 x 33 cm / 12.99 x 12.99”

Electricity: 3 light bulbs E27, 3 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt. Any type of light bulb can be used but a gold crown/bowl/cup light bulb is preferred.

Period: 1970s, 1980s – Hollywood Regency.

Designer: To be appraised.

Manufacturer: To be determined, in all probability a Belgian or French company.

Other versions: This Maison Jansen palm trees floor lamp exists in several forms and sizes with this burned brass. Many different lamps were made: palm trees, reeds, flowers, pineapples… Some lamps were made in bamboo and brass.

Maison Jansen was a furniture maker and interior designer. Not a lamp manufacturer. They did sell lamps made by others that matched their interior decor, hence the confusion.

These palm lamps are often attributed to the famous Maison Jansen company, but there were several artists and companies in the 1960s and mostly in the 1970s who created similar lamps. To name a few: Christian Techoueyres and Glensar, both companies from France. Some of them are signed, most are not.

Maison Jansen

Maison Jansen or House of Jansen, was a Paris-based interior decoration company founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen. It was located at 23, rue de l’Annonciation, Paris. Today the house is the Maison Jansen museum and it also promotes contemporary artists.

The Germany company Hans Kögl is a manufacturer that produces big palm tree floor lamps since 1979.

Today (2019) new palm tree lamps are being made. Beware if you want a real old one. If it looks new, it usually is. New ones are often painted with some special antique gold paint to make them look older. They are painted in the same manner as Hans Kögl does. Real old palm tree lamps are never painted and are made in brass.