Tony Duquette | 
 enlarge | Authors: Wendy Goodman, Hutton Wilkinson
Creator: Dominick Dunne
Publisher: Abrams Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 7941
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 10.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0810994135
Dewey Decimal Number: 746
EAN: 9780810994133
ASIN: 0810994135
Publication Date: December 1, 2007
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Product Description
American artist and design legend Tony Duquette (1914 1999) was known for his over-the-top style in interiors, jewelry, costumes, and set design. His clients included Elizabeth Arden, the Duchess of Windsor, and Herb Albert.
The multi-talented Duquette designed sets for MGM musicals with Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnelli, and designed Tony Award winning costumes for the original Broadway production of Camelot. Duquette was the first American to exhibit a one-man show at the Louvre in Paris.
Tony Duquette is a lavishly illustrated book with many lost and never-before published photographs from the Duquette archives, including portraits and pictures taken by Man Ray, John Engstead, Fredrich Dapriche, Andre Ostier, George Platt Lynnes, as well as original sketches, designs, and texts by Duquette himself. With commentary, interviews, stories, and contributions from Liza Minnelli, Arlene Dahl, Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, and others.
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 TONY DUQUETTE WAS A MASTER OF STYLE April 2, 2008
Robert L. Renk (PDX)
This is a wonderful book and with Amazon's amazingly inexpensive price, you really can't pass this one up. Tony Duquette was a master of style with an incredible eye, and a creative genius. HIGHLY recommended.
 Hollywood not Interiors March 1, 2008
Seaside Designer (Palm Beach FL)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Tony DuquetteI am an interior designer of some 20 years and while I found this book interesting it had very little to do with interiors and more to do with a very specific, unique and strange lifestyle. I'm sure the man was brilliant just know this book is not about liveable interiors.
WOW! What a book! January 27, 2008
Gregory Firlotte (Hollywood, California)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Having lived in Los Angeles since 1981 and working as an art editor for a regional magazine, the name Tony Duquette came up time and again in my social circles. Without question, he was an amazing talent the likes of which we may never see again in our lifetime. His imagination and passion for his unworldly, surrealist visions are captured in this brilliantly orchestrated book. Bravo and brava to the authors! A must-have for everyone's art library!
fab photos January 18, 2008
Karen L. Marcus (Kansas City)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I met Tony and his wife in Ireland - we were staying at Heney McIlhennys castle - he was terrible charming - I did not know of his career and am so sorry I didn't question him til he was exhausted.
karen marcus
More than a coffee table book January 12, 2008
R. Land (California)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a visually beautiful book that surveys the creative life of Tony Duquette, an artist best-know for his stage sets (Kismet, etc.)and high fashion jewelry. Less well known are his amazing home interior and garden designs, as well as his free-wheeling sculptures, many of them made from recycled and re-imagined objects. The photography is of the highest quality - most of it, I suspect, archival from fashion magazines over the decades.
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