Denning & Fourcade, Inc.
| corporation | |
| Genre | design |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founder | Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade |
| Defunct | 2006 |
| Headquarters |
New York City, United States Paris |
| Products | custom designed furniture |
| Services | interior design |
Robert Denning & Vincent Fourcade, Inc. (1960 – 2006) was an interior design firm which for over forty years was a leader in opulent interiors with offices in New York City and Paris. They are known for their "Proust-must-have-slept-here settings for a clientele with anything but American tastes."
The company was founded in 1960 by Robert Denning, a protégé of Edgar de Evia, and Vincent Fourcade, a son of the French banking family, who had grown up with the Rothschilds. Their first clients were Lillian Bostwick and Ogden Phipps whom they entertained, together with others from New York society, in the opulent Rhinelander Mansion, which Denning shared with deEvia. Their work was featured through the years in most major interior and fashion magazines including Architectural Digest, Arts & Decoration, House & Garden, and Town & Country. The home which they decorated for Henry Kravis was parodied in the 1990 US movie The Bonfire of the Vanities.
The firm created "decorator rooms" for leading department stores, Tiffany's, Decoration and Design, 1961 exhibition, where they featured wall-to-wall carpet and cushions of real raccoon against walls and upholstery in silk Fortuny and at historic homes. At Old Westbury Gardens on Long Island, the old Phipps estate, they in 1963 created one of the most opulent areas with their design for a Yachtswoman's poolside boudoir. "A lot of our earliest clients—like Michel David-Weill—were people Vincent had gone to parties with. It was a little like, 'let's put on a show'".
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