Hutton Wilkinson * Tony Duquette Inc. is a full service interior design firm based in Beverly Hills with current projects in Los Angeles, New York, Palm Beach and Thailand with completed projects in Paris, Venice, Hawaii and Saudi Arabia.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art at Exposition Park, 1952
In 1951 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (the old museum in Exposition Park) invied Tony Duquette to bring his unprecedented exhibition from the Louvre museum to his home town.
In the glass case, a tortoise shell and vermeil table garniture with “modern” sculptural vermeil fruits and dried pomegranates. the low chair (originally designed by duquette for elsie de wolfe’s house “after all”) is upholstered in needlework to duquette’s design. on the wall hang two costume sketches in duquette’s own wood and passementerie frames.
From the left at the Duquette exhibition: A three-dimensional costumed figure under glass, Duquette’s chess set depicting the ancient Hawaiians fighting captain cook and his sailors, two framed watercolors of Venice and a secretary desk with panels painted by Duquette in reverse painting on glass backed with antique brocades. note Duquette’s Moderne gilded Klismos chair.
The view through the galleries at LACMA with Duquette’s signature chandeliers and his metal pagoda holding his “Moderne” gilded Klismos chairs and card table..
