#duquette

[vintagehomecollection]

One of Duquette's 'Angel' figures, created for the Los Angeles Bicentennial.

The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995

[mudwerks]

The Daily Don

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Image credit: Jesse Duquette

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Duquette artwork for Hifi & Stereo Review 1958

[thequakingblog]

Unfortunately, this is not my new studio. Just off Highway 23 in Duquette, Minnesota. 

[fashionbooksmilano]

Tony Duquette

Wendy Goodman and Hutton Wilkinson

Foreword by Dominik Dunne

Harry N Abrams , New York 2007, 368 pages

euro 210,00*

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This book reveals the designer's taste for the theatrical. Tony Duquette took de Wolf's no-holds-barred style in his manifesto. He crafted rooms that were beguiling, grandiose and pure Hollywood...opulent and overstated with gilded lilies, leopard patters, rock crystal, tented ceilings and endless rococo paintings.Tony Duquette designed sparkling jewels, spectacular stage sets, extravagant costumes, and interiors for pleasure pavilions inspired by dreams. He loved richness, drama, ornament, individuality and eccentricity. He considered 18th Century France the apogee of design and civilisation and recreated a Sun King's ransom of painting and festoons for his own interior spaces.'I always decorate as if I were working in that period rather than merely re-creating it'. Duquette designed with authentic fabrics and colours, painting and decorative objects. Each space was a pastiche of Duquette's passions: Chinoiserie, gold-leafed trays, Louis XV chairs, clusters of pillow made from Balinese fabrics and Japanese brocades. He is known for embellishing, draping and layering. His signature over-the-top style includes decorating with shells and faux coral, rearranging tabourets and porcelain, applied faux-malachite and vignettes set up to a crescendo of clashing colours.

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Looking into the office from the garden at “Dawnridge”. This small pavilion was built by Tony Duquette around an existing fireplace which was all that remained after a fire in 1972 burned the original house which was on this site to the ground. Duquette has furnished this office with his Louis XV ormolu bureau plat and antique Chinese Chippendale chairs.

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The antlers that decorate this pavilion came from San Simeon.

The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995