 Stéphane Boudin (28 October 1888 – 18 October 1967) was a French interior designer and a president of Maison Jansen, the influential Paris-based interior decorating firm. Stéphane Jules Léon Boudin, né le 28 octobre 1888 dans le 2e arrondissement de Paris, ville où il est mort en son domicile le 18 octobre 1967 dans le 7e arrondissement, est un décorateur français qui fut directeur de la Maison Jansen, cabinet de décoration intérieure parisien à la clientèle prestigieuse. BiographyStéphane Boudin (28 October 1888 – 18 October 1967) was a French interior designer and a president of Maison Jansen, the influential Paris-based interior decorating firm. Jansen is known for designing interiors for Elsie de Wolfe, Henry Channon, the royal families of Yugoslavia, Belgium and Iran, the German Reichsbank during the period of National Socialism, and Leeds Castle in Kent for its last owner, Olive, Lady Baillie. Boudin is best known for being asked by U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy to join American antiques expert Henry Francis du Pont of the Winterthur Museum and interior designer Sister Parish in the renovation and restoration of the White House from 1961 to 1963. After Boudin impressed the first lady with his initial work in the Red and Blue rooms, Mrs. Kennedy gave him increasing control of the redecoration project, to the consternation of du Pont and Parish.  The Red Room of the White House, designed by Stéphane Boudin  The Red Room of the White House, designed by Stéphane Boudin  The Blue Room of the White House, designed by Stéphane Boudin  The Blue Room of the White House, designed by Stéphane Boudin  The Blue Room of the White House, designed by Stéphane Boudin Boudin also decorated Les Ormes, the Washington, D.C. home of Perle Mesta, the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, and her sister, Marguerite Tyson; the house and its furnishings eventually were purchased by Lyndon B. Johnson. The Johnsons hired Genevieve Hendricks to integrate a touch of Texas into the Boudin decor. BiographieEn 1928, Stéphane Boudin acquiert de la comédienne Mary Marquet, pour 250 000 francs, le mobilier de chambre à coucher de Mademoiselle Mars et le revend au magnat William Randolph Hearst, qui l'offre à sa maîtresse Marion Davies. Stéphane Boudin a fait réaménager les appartements privés d'Édouard VIII au palais de Buckingham. Plus tard, à la demande de Jacqueline Kennedy alors première dame des États-Unis, une grande part de la rénovation des intérieurs de la Maison-Blanche entre 1962 et 1963 lui est due.  La salle à manger du château de Leeds, conçue par Stéphane Boudin pour Lady Olive Baillie, vers 1935. Further interest
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