CHRISTIAN DARNAID-MAROSELLI AND JEAN DE MERRY FOUNDED THE NAMESAKE FURNITURE LINE, JEAN DE MERRY, IN 2001 WITH A MISSION TO UPHOLD THE CRAFT OF A BYGONE ERA. FROM A SMALL FRENCH TOWN WHERE SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS OF DE MERRY’S FAMILY HAD OPERATED A LEATHER TANNING BUSINESS FOR FOUR CENTURIES, TO CREATING A VISIONARY HOME COLLECTION HANDCRAFTED AT THEIR LOS ANGELES ATELIER. JEAN DE MERRY HAS FROWN INTO A FRENCH DECO-INSPIRED, ARTISANAL LINE THAT SPARKS THE IMAGINATIONS OF ITS CLIENTS, PRODUCING PIECES THAT ARE TIMELESS, UNEXPECTED AN ANCHORED AND CRAFTSMANSHIP. FOR THE DUEM EMPHASIS ON THE PROCESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN KEY TO CREATING BEAUTIFUL YET INTEGRAL PIECES. TO CREATE JEAN DE MERRY SEATING, LIGHTING, CASE GOODS AND DECRETIVE ART, DE MERRY AND DARNAUD-MORSELLI TRANSFERS THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF AGE-OLD, FRENCH TECHNIQUES FOR APPLICATION ON WOODS, LEATHERS, SHADGREEN, PARCHMENT AND BRONZE TO A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN. “IT’S ALL IN THE METHOD,” SAYS DE MERRY. “WE ARE APPLYING VERY SPECIAL METHODS TO OUR MATERIALS.”