Wolfsonian–FIU Assistant Registrar Whitney Richardson's "Upstaged by Design" blog... I have created this blog for those of us who ever noticed the furniture at the space station Dr. Heywood Floyd stops at on his trip to the moon in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the lamps in Rick’s Cafe Americain in Casablanca or wondered whose house Being There was filmed in. My perspective on movies and their design comes from my background education and training. After studying architectural history and design as an undergraduate and earning my Master’s degree in the history of design and decorative arts I went on to work in the field of entertainment memorabilia. I love how movie sets can replicate a period in history for the viewer to experience it as it was to those characters; where a historic house usually presents the period room as it has been preserved over the years. My love of film and my constant focus on the furniture and decorative art objects surrounding the characters gave me the idea to start this blog and offer my perspective on movies and their design.