Tony, Hutton, and Maison Objet Americas

Tony Duquette Los Angeles

Did you know that the Maison Objet show has now arrived in Miami?  If you missed it, don't worry, the second annual show will be held in May 2016 !  

Can I tell you how much I like the idea of using a blue malachite fabric with a green malachite bureau plat?

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Do you think More is More, or Less is More?  DF *****

Fantasy in Decoration VII

Tony Duquette

RR Corniche 

Billy Baldwin AD

Mary Wells Lawrence, Great Book!

Mary Wells Lawrence

La Villa Fiorentina when the Lawrences owned it

Mr. Baldwin's role in Mrs. Lawrence's domestic education was inestimable. ''Billy was very naughty, but so amusing,'' she said. ''He'd say things like: 'You don't know anything about this -- I'm going to tell you how to do it. This is how you sit in this chair. This is how you eat at this table.' He'd tell us how to live in a certain room. He thought dining rooms were boring, and you should eat everywhere.''

Blonde beach boy

Nantucket

Mr. Baldwin had already left for Nantucket, the secretary said, when my chaperone for my grand tour, Robert Morring, an antiques dealer from Atlanta, phoned his office.  So, we left our hotel and went to a very smart party at the Sutton Place apartment of Joseph Braswell~ this was back in 1977 or so...three years later I was back from Europe, and living in Manhattan, studying interior design with the old Parsons faculty !  My life was terribly exciting, dangerous even~

Billy Baldwin

New painted brick masonry, made to look old

I adore the fantasy look of this house~ A lot of the older homes in Winston-Salem, where I grew up, look like this one- only with more vines attached.  
When Mary Berg, later to become famous as Mary Wells Lawrence, was growing up in the small town of Poland, Ohio (near Youngstown) she had a recurring dream about a white house perched on a cliff above an ocean~ thirty-five years later she purchased La Villa Fiorentina, on the French Riviera and spent the next thirty years entertaining there.  
But it was ten years of work before she got to spend even a two week holiday in the house, since she had become the top advertising executive in the United States, as head of Wells, Rich, Greene. (NYSE)  I've always been intrigued by her Pygmalion-like success story.  Inspiring!  Cheers!  DF *****

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Decorator Scrapbook 2013

Dean Farris Interior Design

Tony Duquette

Dean Farris Interior Design

Elizabeth Dinkel

Dean in Paris, Hotel Caron de Beaumarchais

Stephen Sills

Dean in his shop, Winston-Salem, NC

Alexa Hampton

Hunt Slonem

James Andrew

Our client and friend, Charles Fleck

Deans' New York flat, E. 66th Street

Enjoy these images of good friends, and favorite rooms...Cheers!  DF *****

Norris Home Furnishings, Naples-Style Appointments

Norris Home Furnishings, Naples, FL

Our Naples location, located at 5015 Tamiami Trail North- (just south of the Hilton) is a veritable treasure trove of truly exciting and fabulous accessories and furnishings.  Above, I focused on this amazing waterfall on the wall fountain- and the two Kwan Yin sculptures- just sublime, located in our second floor high-end outdoor living gallery.

Norris Home Furnishings, Naples

 Above, another stunning visual assemblage, featuring a very elegant lacquered bar by Theodore and Alexander.  I particularly like the horseshoe crab sconces in the gilt finish!

Norris Home Furnishings, Naples, Detail of Showroom Display

I do think that, if Mr. Tony Duquette were around today, even he, the maestro of all things fabulous and exciting, would approve of this fantastical grouping, (above) - AND these images are just a very small sample of what's in store for you when you come in and visit our beautiful and warm and friendly designer showroom, here in sunny Naples on the Gulf...we look forward to seeing you!  Cheers!
DF ***** (telephone 239-263-0580)

Tony Duquette, The Inspiration

Space of the Week: Every Cockatoo Needs a Headdress

Check out this fabulous piece by Wendy Goodman... DF 



Duquette for Dodie Rosecrans, Venice