Born in France, Thierry Despont studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and earned a Master’s in Urban Design from Harvard. After founding his architectural firm in 1980, he built a prestigious reputation, working on landmark projects such as the Statue of Liberty’s Centennial Restoration, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Decorative Arts Galleries, and high-end hotels like the Carlyle in New York and Claridge’s in London. His many high profile clients included the likes of Bill Gates and Calvin Klein.
While best known for these projects, Despont was a no less accomplished visual artist. His enthusiasms were myriad, and his work focused on an almost incredible range of subjects, including but not limited to entymology, ichthyology, anthopology, history, and astronomy. The very smallest of earth's creatures, like insects, captivated him no less than the universe’s very largest—planetary bodies and the cosmos. All of his work was informed by an unrivaled art-historical expertise, lead by a wholly unique imagination, and driven by an omniverous curiousity for life and the very nature of existence.
A Knight of the French Legion of Honor and an Interior Design Hall of Fame inductee, Despont also authored design books. He exhibited his paintings and sculptures globally, notably at the Marlborough Gallery in New York, London, and Monaco.
Armillary Sphere 06, Sculpture from the collection of Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known for his architectural practice—for his integral role in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, his re-imagining of the Ritz in Paris, and the interiors...
Brass, Steel
OR 06, Sculpture of Moon Disk from the collection of Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his sculptures practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of t...
Metal
$60,000
H 128 in W 70 in D 70 in
Armillary Sphere, Mechanical Sculpture, Thierry Despont, US, 21st century
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont was best-known for his very successful architectural practice—but he was also an accomplished artist. Some of his most interesting works are a series of sculptures fa...
Steel
Assemblage Fish Sculpture from the collection of Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont was best-known for his very successful architectural practice—but he was also an accomplished artist. Some of his most interesting works are a series of sculptures fa...
Steel
$50,000
H 128 in W 64 in D 55 in
Armillary Sphere 01 Mixed Media Sculpture in Two Pieces, Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont was best-known for his very successful architectural practice—but he was also an accomplished artist. Some of his most interesting works are a series of sculptures fa...
Steel
OR 08, Mechanical Sculpture from the collection of Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont was best-known for his very successful architectural practice—but he was also an accomplished artist. Some of his most interesting works are a series of sculptures fa...
Iron, Metal
$48,000
H 60 in W 138 in D 41 in
Sculpture of a White Rhinoceros in Wool from the collection of Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his paintings and sculptures, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures...
Wool
$18,500
H 77 in W 19.5 in D 17.25 in
Zouave au Repos, Monumental Sculpture from the collection of Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
This lifelike plaster sculpture of a shirtless Zouave standing with his hands clasped behind his back came from the personal collection of Thierry Despont (1948 - 2023), perhaps best...
Plaster
$15,000
H 23 in W 6 in D 7.75 in
Thierry Despont, Bird Sculpture Constructed from Found Objects, US, 2007
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont was best-known for his very successful architectural practice—but he was also an accomplished artist. Some of his most interesting works are a series of sculptures fa...
Metal
Head of Lady Liberty from the collection of Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Engraved at base: "2746 Junom..." Thierry Despont (1948 - 2023) was best-known for his architectural practice—for his his notable private clients like Bill Gates and Calvin Klein, a...
Fiberglass
Tripodal Walnut Floor Lamp by Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
While Thierry Despont (1948 - 2023) was best-known for his architectural practice—for his integral role in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, his re-imagining of the Ritz in P...
Bronze, Steel
Niamh Barry, In the Eyes of, Polished Bronze Light Sculpture, Ireland, 2023
By Niamh Barry
Located in New York, NY
Niamh Barry often says that her sculptures are drawings in bronze and light. Inspired by natural beauty, her work transcends utility. She strives, above all else, to achieve striking...
Bronze
Barbro Åberg, The Guardians, Ceramic Sculpture, Denmark, 2002
By Barbro Åberg
Located in New York, NY
Åberg's works, made largely in black and white, are often purely sculptural, even playfully non-utilitarian. Rough surfaces inspired by geology are set in contrast to a refined elega...
Ceramic
Emiliano Céliz, Genesis Marina IV: Life from the Void, Argentina, 2022
By Emiliano Céliz
Located in New York, NY
Emiliano Céliz is one of the finest silversmiths in South America. Residing in the San Martin de los Andes of Patagonia, he takes as his inspiration the splendor of his natural surroundings, incorporating the forms found in the beautiful lakes and the exquisite landscapes of the region into his work. His decorative artworks are wrought from a single plate of metal, a technique mastered by only a few artists in the world. Evocative of primitive life in ancient seas...
Copper
Paul Rocheil, L’aurore (The Dawn) Classical Nude Sculpture, France, circa 1930
By Paul Rocheil
Located in New York, NY
This elegant large-scale nude is, like many sculptures of the period, classically inspired, both in its aesthetic and subject matter—depicting in plaster, a just larger than life-siz...
Plaster
Yongjin Han, A Piece of Stone, Granite Sculpture, United States, 1993
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculptu...
Granite
