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Upstaged by Design · 3W ago

Revenge

Oh yeah, I’ve been watching it.  And I’m hooked.  But, when Tyler Barrol tied Nolan Ross to a chair in his living room, in Episode 10, Loyalty, I was too busy noticing the famous chair to worry about Nolan.  Anyone else? The chair that Nolan is tied to is the Wassily chair, designed by Marcel [...]
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Upstaged by Design · 4W ago

The Five Year Engagement

The past two weeks have been very satisfying ones for me regarding movies.  They’ve been so good in fact, that I’m inspired to write!  I haven’t written in too long.  Last week I got to watch Vertigo on the big screen at an outdoor park’s cinema night.  I feel like I mention this in every post, but 
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Upstaged by Design · 4M ago

2012 Academy Award Nominations

The Academy Award nominations for Art Direction have been announced!  Stuart Craig was once again nominated for his very thorough work on Harry Potter.  Laurence Bennett and Anne Seibel are both coming into the race with impressive past work.  Dante Feretti has already won two Oscars for Art Directi
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Upstaged by Design · 9M ago

American Psycho, Foreign Collector

I was inspired by Flavorwire’s recent article titled, 15 Apartments on Film That We Wished We Owned, written by Colette McIntyre.  It covered some of my favorite apartments and homes in movies as well, and I could happily write a post for each one of them (and who knows, I may!), but the first one [
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Upstaged by Design · 12M ago

True Blood Season 4: No Really, I Watch It For the Furniture

In just 25 days, the new season of HBO’s True Blood comes out …so, I thought I would take a quick look at the set and find out a little bit more about a painting that caught my eye. In the upper left corner of the image above, from True Blood’s Season Three, Episode 9, “Everything is Broken” [...]
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Upstaged by Design · 1Y ago

As in all Fairy Tales, adapt or die.

I went to see Hanna this weekend and left the theater amazed.  I had hoped from seeing the preview that it would be based on fairy tales, and I was not disappointed.  But, we’re not talking the Disney-sequins-dressed-princess-and-charming-prince-type fairy tales; we’re talking difficult-lessons-lear
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Upstaged by Design · 1Y ago

The Dragon Tattoo and Swedish Wallpaper

When this film started, I had no way of knowing how much I would get wrapped up in it!  (I had a similar experience with the book too.)  The story is excellent, the acting is amazing, but it was the interesting British and Swedish decorative arts and parallels to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (one of m
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Upstaged by Design · 1Y ago

2011 Academy Awards – Art Direction

In one week, The Academy Awards will be airing on ABC.  Over the course of the evening,  fashions will be discussed and awards for acting will be handed out, but my favorite part will be finding out who will win for Art Direction.  The following are the 2011 nominees for that Oscar. Alice in Wonderl
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Upstaged by Design · 1Y ago

2011 Academy Awards – Art Direction

In one week, The Academy Awards will be airing on ABC.  Over the course of the evening,  fashions will be discussed and awards for acting will be handed out, but my favorite part will be finding out who will win for Art Direction.  The following are the 2011 nominees for that Oscar. Alice in Wonderl
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