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!
Stunning Silver Leaf Console Table Designed by Tony Duquette
By Baker Furniture Company, Tony Duquette
Located in New York, NY
Stunning Biomorphic silver leaf console designed by Tony Duquette, reissued in a limited amount by Baker furniture company. The console was originally designed for the Charles and ...
Silver Leaf
Tony Duquette Style “Taffy” Side Table
By Tony Duquette
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cast resin side table with an openwork base composed of intertwined, ribbon-like forms, finished in a gilt tone with darkened recesses to emphasi...
Glass, Resin
Mastercraft Console Table Designed By William Doezema
By Mastercraft, William Doezema
Located in Houston, TX
Mastercraft Console Table Designed By William Doezema. Offered is a shapely black lacquer and brass console table desgined by William Doezema for Mastercraft in the 1980's. This time...
Brass
$3,900Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 34.5 in W 37 in D 15.25 in
Stunning Pair Baker Hollywood Regency Demilune Console or Bar Cabinet
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Lovely pair of Baker demilune console tables. They have a uniquely shaped marble top, over 2 cylindrical doors, raised on bracket feet. We love the orig...
Brass
Small lucite coffee table or side table, 1970s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Lovely lucite and glass top coffee table or side table with brass screws. Very good condition. 1970s - Belgium Height: 35cm/13.77" Width: 50cm/19.68" Depth: 50cm/19.68" Ref.: 203654
Brass
Vintage Travertine Coffee Table and Side Tables, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Set of exquisite travertine coffee table and side tables. Finely finished table tops with inlaid stone Greek key decorations. The bases have these same decorations in gold paint. B...
Travertine
Object 057 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 057 console table by NG Design. Dimensions: D 90x W 20 x H 90 cm. Materials: powder coated steel, marble Nero Marquina Also available: all of objects available in different ...
Marble, Steel
Object 015 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 015 console table by NG Design Dimensions: D75 x W20 x H75 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on de...
Steel
$461Sale Price|55% Off
H 20.48 in W 24.81 in D 24.81 in
Italian Faux Tusk Glass Side Table-Tommaso Barbi Style-80s
By Tommaso Barbi
Located in Bussiere Dunoise, Nouvel Aquitaine
Glass coffee table/side table with tusk-shaped glass top – Tommaso Barbi side table from the 1980s. This tusk-shaped glass table, inspired by Tommaso Barbi, is a masterpiece of scul...
Metal, Brass
$3,650 / set
H 19.75 in Dm 20 in
Pair of Tony Duquette Inspired “Taffy” Metallic Resin Side Tables, 1960s
By Tony Duquette
Located in Hamburg, PA
Sculptural pair of mid-century side tables in the iconic “Taffy” design inspired by Tony Duquette. Each features an organic, openwork cylindrical base of intertwined ribbon-like form...
Glass, Resin, Paint
Object 096 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 096 Console Table by NG Design Dimensions: W 100 x D 27 x H 90 cm Materials: Powder-Coated Steel Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on...
Steel
In the Style of Tony Duquette, Ribbon, United States, circa 1970s
By Tony Duquette
Located in New York, NY
With a top of glass and a base of bronze-colored resin modeled into a cylinder of latticed ribbons, this table, in the style of Tony Duquette, possesses a unique dark beauty.
Glass, Resin
$10,620
H 34.26 in W 55.52 in D 20.48 in
Horizonte Console Table by Studio Superego, Altuglass & Agate Design
By Studio Superego
Located in Asti, Piemonte
An Horizonte console table, altuglass structure decorated with agate circles, gilded brass ornaments. Producer's plate, dated and numbered. Designed by Studio Superego for Superego E...
Plexiglass
$12,800
H 40.19 in W 66.93 in D 31.13 in
Italian Console Table with Silver Leaf, Arabescato Marble Top, 1750
Located in Wichita, KS
An Italian console in original parcel silver leaf beautifully carved with an Arabescato marble top from Tuscany, 18th century, circa 1750. Shaped marble top. Exceptional pierced, arb...
Marble, Silver Leaf
A Pair of Giant Clam Shell Jardinières or Tables by Tony Duquette
By Tony Duquette
Located in Atlanta, GA
A great pair of unique tables in the form of giant clams on metal stands designed by Tony Duquette (1914-1999) circa 1970s. These can also be used as bespoken jardinières or catch-al...
Metal
"Ribbon" Dining Table In the Style of Tony Duquette
By Tony Duquette
Located in Dallas, TX
"Ribbon" dining table in cream resin in the style of Tony Duquette. Refinishing is recommended for table base, circa 1960s Dimensions: 54" D x 29" T 21" D (table base).
Resin
Gold "Ribbon" Coffee Table in the Style of Tony Duquette
By Tony Duquette
Located in Dallas, TX
"Ribbon" coffee table in gold resin in the Style of Tony Duquette. There is some visible wear due to age and use, circa 1960s. Dimensions: 36" diameter, 17" tall.
Resin
Tony Duquette Ribbon Round Coffee Table with Glass Top
By Tony Duquette
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Tony Duquette ribbon coffee table with glass top.
Ribbon Table in the Style of Tony Duquette
By Tony Duquette
Located in Norwalk, CT
Large resin ribbon table in satin dove white. Dimension: Nice larger size: 21" diameter and 20" height.
Sold
H 34 in W 69 in D 31.5 in
Spectacular Modernist Free-Form Sculptural Console by Tony Duquette for Baker
By Tony Duquette
Located in New York, NY
Considered one of Duquette's most inspired works, the Biomorphic Console was originally designed for the Charles and Palmer Ducommun Bel Air residen...