52nd Annual Delaware Show

Thomas Jayne, an internationally known interior designer and author, founded Jayne Design Studio in 1990. In another room for collectors of decorative art in Philadelphia, we designed a dining room around a Parsons-type table created by Karl Springer (fig. 4) . As an object of focus and something new, the table’s bright blue gives the room an immediately fresh appearance, with Portuguese dining chairs providing sculptural contrast. Clearly, for these two rooms and others that Jayne Design Studio has decorated over the last quarter century, I owe a great debt to the inspiration, the genius, and the vision of Henry Francis du Pont. Fig. 3. The drawing room of Drumlin Hall, Dutchess County, New York, is an homage to the neoclassical rooms at Winterthur. Photo, Pieter Estershon Fig. 4. The dining room of a Philadelphia townhouse with a Karl Springer Parsons table and Portuguese chairs. Photo, Pieter Estersohn — 22 —