I'm seeing shells...

 A Fornasetti tray...

(via 1stDibs, please click images to be directed to their source)

 

A pair of Maison Jansen eglomise wall plaques...

(via 1stDibs)

 

A Pair of Italian 19th century grotto chairs...

(via 1stDibs)

Flight & Barr Worcester porcelain with shell decoration...

(via Christie's)

 

A Tony Duquette Splashing Water chandelier sold at Bonham's, LA

To Die For

A Tony Duquette 'Malachite' Chair, circa 1940s

Lobsters

 

Sketch of a lobster, Albrecht Durer, 1495...

 

One of a pair of bone lobsters via 1stDibs...

 

Wallis Simpson wearing Elsa Schiaparelli's Lobster Dress

 

Isabella Blow wearing the most amazing hat Phillip Treacy ever created...

 

 Isabella Blow wearing Phillip Treacy...

and Lady Gaga wearing Phillip Treacy...

Is it that obvious who wore it better?

 

Red lobsters crown an exotic pavilion in a Tony Duquette inspired window at Bergdorf's in December of 2007... 

Tony Duquette at One Kings Lane

Today's One Kings Lane Tastemaker Tag Sale featured Tony Duquette designs as curated by current creative director Hutton Wilkinson... some items were even from Duquette's estate Dawnridge... and incredibly opportunity to own a piece that actually belonged to this legendary designer... these are some of my favorites...

 

 Louis Philippe tables with original Tony Duquette malachite-painted finish- so over the top, so amazing, so Duquette...

 

A screen made of a pen and ink drawing of Venice by Tony Duquette that he did in 1947; the screen was made in the 1990s. There were three of these in the sale and I'm completely obsessed with them- so dramatic...

 

A Louis XV style yellow, Chinoiserie desk by Baker... I love the color and lines...

 

 

A Victorian lacquered and papier-mache Gondola chair with mother of pearl inlay... again, so ridiculous and over the top that you have to love it...

Good job, One Kings Lane. I'm not quite sure you can trump this one.

Tony Duquette for Baker

Baker's line of Tony Duquette reproductions is amazing. I want to make room for all three of these...

 

This last lamp reminds me of the jeweled tortoise from one of my favorite novels Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh... I now can't decide if I'd rather jewel a tortoise or gild it...