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Pair of Mid-Century Tony Duquette Venetian Light Sconce, Mid-20th Century

Name: Pair of Mid-Century Tony Duquette Venetian Light Sconce, Mid-20th Century
Brand: Tony Duquette
Price: 4500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Mid-Century Tony Duquette venetian light sconces. Each features metal palm leaf forms with custom shades and murano crystal prisms. Priced each. Additional information: Materials: crystal, lights, metal. Color: silver. Period: Mid-20th century. Styles: Hollywood Regency. Lamp shade: included Power sources: Up to 120V (US Standard), Hardwired. Item Type: vintage, antique or pre-owned. Dimensions: 32" W × 6" D × 38" L. Condition: good condition, original condition unaltered, some imperfections

Creator:

Tony Duquette (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 38 in (96.52 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Power Source:

Hardwired

Voltage:

110-150v

Lampshade:

Included

Style:

Hollywood Regency (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Crystal,Iron,Metal

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

Mid-20th Century

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Light wear. This piece is in working order.

Seller Location:

LOS ANGELES, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU5125232661122

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Tony Duquette

One of the great style icons of the 20th century, Tony Duquette (1914–99) created pieces with a singularly ebullient elegance. Through his private interior-decorating commissions and his work as a stage and movie-set designer, Duquette made his name synonymous with flamboyance, fantasy and glamorous originality.

Duquette was born in Los Angeles and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. But his true education began in the mid-1930s, first as an assistant to an aging Elsie de Wolfe — the eminent interior designer who many say created the profession — and later as a colleague of William Haines, the famed movie-star-turned-decorator. Duquette’s clients would come to include many Hollywood luminaries — he decorated “Pickfair,” the fabled home of actress Mary Pickford, and homes for producer David O. Selznick and director Vincent Minnelli — and a robust roster of the rich and powerful, among them Doris Duke, J. Paul Getty, Norton Simon and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. All the while, Duquette was designing film and theater sets and costumes. He worked on such films as Kismet, Ziegfeld Follies and Can-Can; he won a Tony award in 1961 for costume design for the original Broadway production of Camelot.

Theatricality is the keynote of the best of Duquette’s designs. He made things that would get attention. Duquette was no purist — he appreciated the spare and sleek as much as the baroque and elaborate — but everything had to provide a visual effect, if not necessarily perform a function. Apart from the furnishings and objects he designed for his grandest decorating commissions, Duquette rarely used precious materials. “Beauty, not luxury, is what I value” was his often-repeated motto. Duquette pieces priced at $10,000 and above tend to be either intricately made or super-scaled or have an interesting ownership provenance. Most of his works are marked at about $5,000.

As you will see on 1stDibs, Tony Duquette created something for anyone who likes big-statement design — providing a showstopper for a lean, modernist decor or an alluring element in a lush, more-is-more interior. A Duquette design says: On with the show!