About

“I want the surface to have depth.”

Contradiction in terms? Not to Marnie Jamieson, who revels in superbly crafted objects. Her Los Angeles-based studio, Marian Jamieson Furniture & Lighting, offers
luxury furnishings to order, through the trade. This multidisciplinary
enthusiast cut her teeth at Edwin Schlossberg’s design firm, moving on to
become a key member of Sally Sirkin Lewis’s team at J. Robert Scott. The
exposure on the one hand to groundbreaking interactive exhibitory and on the
other to the most elegant timeless classics clarified for her that no style,
category or technique was beyond consideration or mastery. Launching her own
business in 1999, her aesthetic has remained consistent: poised, artful pieces
that are at once sleek and textural, meticulously finished, with a “come closer
and touch” allure. Touching, she says, is key to understanding her design
approach that the quality shows in the surface. “You feel the depth of the
application,” she notes, whether that be the burnished or satin-finished woods,
gold leafing, exotic lacquers, antiqued or highly polished metals. Even her
lampshades are exuberantly tactile, created of sophisticated, dimensional
weavings of silk, linen, grass cloth or parchment.