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 Tony Duquette, Baker Furniture Company
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
Mastercraft Console Table Designed By William Doezema
By William Doezema, Mastercraft
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
$2,695
H 27.25 in W 53.75 in D 15.75 in
English Chippendale Console Table, Mahogany, Fret Work Design, 1980s
By Baker Furniture Company, Kindel Furniture
Located in Southampton, NJ
Bespoke 20th C. English Console table with Chinese Chippendale styling in the pierced fret work, gorgeous fiery Mahogany wood grains and larks tongue chamfered detailing to the legs....
Mahogany
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
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
$7,170
H 29.93 in W 55.91 in D 13.78 in
Console Table, Aluminum Console by Nao Tamura, Japanese-Inspired Design, Italy
By Nao Tamura, Porro
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Console Table, Origata Aluminum Console by Nao Tamura, Japanese-Inspired Design TITLE: Origata Console DESIGNER: Nao Tamura STYLE: Contemporary MATERIALS: 6 mm Aluminum, Lacquer DIM...
Aluminum
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
Division Console Table by Phase Design
By Reza Feiz, Phase Design
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Listed price is for the Division Console table with either a travertine, white carrara, or negro marquna top, and Flat Black or Flat White powder coat base. Prices exclude packing ...
Travertine, Marble, Carrara Marble, Steel
$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
$23,030 / item
H 34 in W 72 in D 15 in
OSLO GRANDE CONSOLE - Modern Circular Design Gold Leaf and Carrara Marble Table
By Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz
Located in Laguna Niguel, CA
OSLO GRANDE CONSOLE - Modern Circular Design Gold Leaf and Carrara Marble Table The Oslo Grande console table is a luxurious and contemporary piece of ...
Marble, Gold Leaf
Silver Leaf Oval Console Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Silver Leaf Oval Console Table, circa 1940's. It has a very clean-lined form with wonderful patina and much wear to the silver leafing, beautifully ...
Small Console in Lacquer and Silver Leaf "Cloud"
By Jacques Jarrige
Located in New York, NY
A unique sculptural console by Jacques Jarrige, Cloud is hand-carved in MDF and finished in a luminous white lacquer with a silver leaf interior. The piece embodies Jarrige’s signatu...
Wood
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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...