About

MAISON ARCHINARD is the decorative arts and design atelier/project/ongoing work in progress of Lauren and Lydia Tennenbaum, although truthfully, this sounds a lot more pretentious than they'd like it to.

After graduating from Vassar College with a (rather unconventional) major in cognitive science and correlate in art history, Lauren launched Maison Archinard to quell her obsession with richly layered, dramatic, sensual, and truly fantastical spaces. A fusion of her love of art and eccentric whimsy, Maison Archinard is about the seamless integration of antique and contemporary, a re-imagination of the decorative arts and a blurring of the distinction between the fine and the decorative.

Lydia has a long history and background in painting. Her father painted and professionally restored decorative works in Europe before immigrating to the United States, where Lydia grew up in his studio and learned his techniques.

Their work runs the gamut from faux and decorative finishes to textile design and upholstery, utilizing everything from furniture to canvas, silk, leather and metal, antiques and reworked vintage pieces— in essence anything that need be done to achieve a particular mood and fantasy within a space.