Hutton Wilkinson & Flynn Kuhnert. Illustrated by Tony Duquette.
Cecil Court Press. London. 2015. First edition. Collector's edition, limited to 1,000 copies. 2 volumes, hardback, octavo; cloth-bound boards, dust jackets, all edges gilt, house in orange slipcase with gilt decoration. 383, 225 pages. Illustrated with sketches from the Tony Duquette archives. English. 245 x 165mm. 2kg. 9780990885818. Near fine, in near fine dust jackets and slipcase; exuberantly signed by Wilkinson and Kuhnert to the previous owner in both volumes.
Tony Duquette was somewhat of a protégé of Elsie de Wolfe. Between 1932 and 1951 the pair travelled and worked between America and Europe. The Walk to Elsie's is a fictional narrative of these years, playing out in Paris, Hollywood and elsewhere amongst a cast of characters including Cole Porter, Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland, Christian Dior, Carlos de Beistegui, and the Windsors. A colourful production, enriched with reproductions of sketches by Duquette.
