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The Despont Difference

Posted January 22, 2016. Filed in 1920's-1930's Style, Classical Moderne, Clubby, The Aesthetes, The Collectors, Thierry Despont

Architect and decorator Thierry Despont is finally getting his due. Or, perhaps, it’s just a case of a passionate aesthete doing his life’s work happily without much fanfare. Whatever the case, I have long admired his work but remain dismayed by lack of accessibility to his near-forty year ouvre. Even his own website has little […]

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