Beautiful French Maison Jansen Sliding Coffee Table

1970s coffee table by Maison Jansen in very good condition.
Satined chrome with glass tops and Lucite walls.
The top can slide open to reveal the inside compartment that can be used as a vitrine for books and magazines. This table is very heavy and very well made.

In 1880, at the height of the Belle Époque, Jean-Henri Jansen emigrated from Holland to open a furniture shop on the Rue Royale in Paris. No one could have anticipated that his little business (one of the forerunners of interior decoration as we know it) would grow into an empire, but within Jansen’s lifetime, his emphasis on historical research, his focus on client needs, and his comprehensive approach to transforming space, would earn his firm a faithful client base of wealthy, royal, and otherwise elite clients—clients they would keep for almost a century to come.