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15/11/2025

In this clip from our latest video podcast ,writer-director shares how her new film Park Avenue is a love letter to New York.
👉 Watch the full video podcast now — LINK IN BIO — where Gaby and host Paula Benson explore the layered interiors, emotional undercurrents, and design-led storytelling — a film where furniture, colour, and architecture become central to the drama.

Starring and , Park Avenue unfolds almost entirely within a sumptuous Upper East Side apartment — a space that mirrors the characters’ secrets and histories. Dellal reveals how her dual passions for filmmaking and interior design shaped every detail.
is in UK and Irish cinemas from 14th November

In Park Avenue, writer-director Gaby Dellal brings her dual talents for storytelling and interior design into vivid focu...
13/11/2025

In Park Avenue, writer-director Gaby Dellal brings her dual talents for storytelling and interior design into vivid focus. Starring Katherine Waterston and Fiona Shaw, this poignant drama—set almost entirely within a Park Avenue apartment—presents an intimate mother-daughter reunion shaped as much by design as by dialogue.

💡The dark hallway pops with sophisticated art from artists such as Jenny Scobel and Eli Tamarkin, punctuated with a Stilnovo wall sconce.

🪑 The living room is the emotional arena—a stage for sparring and reconciliation. Classical mouldings and a marble fireplace frame the scene, while sage-green walls, tall sash windows and rich textures lend depth. The Eames Lounge chair and ottoman sit beside a grand piano, both symbols of comfort and control.

🎨 The dining area is defined by a dark wall painted in Farrow and Ball Hague Blue (a near black blue with a hint of green) which serves as a dramatic canvas for the Chinese mask collection. A lighter sage-green room divider borders the space, softening the transition into adjoining rooms and framing the composition like a stage. An antique brass chandelier and a long mahogany table anchor the room, flanked by chairs that suggest generations of use.

☕️ Delicate ceramics and crockery (many from BDDW) paint brushes, books, and a gleaming glass decanter appear and disappear as the story unfolds, turning this multipurpose space into a portrait of cultivated disorder and lived-in grace.

In a club, William Morris wallpaper hugs the walls.

🛍️ Discover more, and all the details on where to find these items for your own home in our latest feature INSIDE PARK AVENUE - LINK in comments
is OUT IN CINEMAS IN UK AND IRELAND NOW.

Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) remains one of cinema’s most visionary explorations of modern architecture and design — a...
12/11/2025

Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) remains one of cinema’s most visionary explorations of modern architecture and design — a satire and a love letter rolled into one.

Its gleaming glass grids, uniform offices and hyper-rational cityscape (built from scratch as “Tativille”) still feel startlingly contemporary in the increasingly corporate world we find ourselves in today. Tati’s meticulous sets blur the line between utopia and alienation — a world of order that leaves humanity slightly out of step.

A reminder that good design lasts — and great design makes us question the world we build around ourselves.
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NEW IN! Allow us to present an original vintage Howard Keith Diplomat sofa in black leather in need of some refurbishmen...
12/11/2025

NEW IN! Allow us to present an original vintage Howard Keith Diplomat sofa in black leather in need of some refurbishment.

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A handsome original vintage Howard Keith Diplomat sofa from the early 1980's with original Sereno Stripe upholstery, with 5 original matching cushions

OUR LATEST VIDEO PODCAST IS LIVE!Host Paula Benson sits down with writer-director Gaby Dellal to explore the layered int...
11/11/2025

OUR LATEST VIDEO PODCAST IS LIVE!
Host Paula Benson sits down with writer-director Gaby Dellal to explore the layered interiors, emotional undercurrents, and design-led storytelling of Park Avenue — a film where furniture, colour, and architecture become central to the drama.

Starring Fiona Shaw and Katherine Waterston, Park Avenue unfolds almost entirely within a sumptuous Upper East Side apartment — a space that mirrors the characters’ secrets and histories. Dellal reveals how her dual passions for filmmaking and interior design shaped every detail, from the inky walls and copper pans to the sound of heels on marble

🎧 Episode Summary: In this episode of The Podcast, host Paula Benson sits down with writer-director Gaby Dellal to explore the layered int...

From Michelle’s sleek corporate office and modern home to Teddy’s ramshackle isolated house and basement, we’ll be divin...
10/11/2025

From Michelle’s sleek corporate office and modern home to Teddy’s ramshackle isolated house and basement, we’ll be diving into the worlds of Bugonia with production designer James Price — the creative mind behind Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest fever dream of power, paranoia and design.

🎥 Stay tuned for our forthcoming video podcast and in-depth website feature, where we uncover the stories behind the furniture, architecture and visual symbolism of Bugonia.

💬 Got any burning questions for James about the film’s sets, design process or working with Yorgos? Drop them in the comments below before 5pm UK time TODAY (Monday 10th Nov) — we might include yours in the interview.
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Long before 2001: A Space Odyssey, William Cameron Menzies and production designer Vincent Korda imagined the architectu...
09/11/2025

Long before 2001: A Space Odyssey, William Cameron Menzies and production designer Vincent Korda imagined the architecture of tomorrow in Things to Come (1936).
Its gleaming Perspex furniture, spiralling ramps and glass-lit 'council chambers' turned design into ideology — a future where transparency meant progress, and architecture became a moral compass.

F&F's Paula Benson be delving into this visionary film (amongst other SciFi classics) to investigate how cinema has shaped our idea of the “future” — in her upcoming talk at the Vitra Design Museum, and in F&F's forthcoming book on design in film.

Things to Come remains one of cinema’s most audacious experiments in imagining how we might live.

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The brilliance of After the Hunt is that Alma’s apartment doesn’t just look lived-in — it thinks. Guadagnino never treat...
01/11/2025

The brilliance of After the Hunt is that Alma’s apartment doesn’t just look lived-in — it thinks. Guadagnino never treats interiors as backdrop; he uses them as subtext.

In Frederik’s study we find a striped sofa from Guadagnino’s own collection, an Eileen Gray E1027 side table, and Josef Albers on the walls — not styling for style’s sake, but cultural literacy expressed through furniture.

The bedroom is where the tone shifts inward: a Milanese Guglielmo Ulrich bed, textile hangings after Anni Albers, and soft sculptural bedside lamps — intimate, but still exquisitely controlled.

We are closer to Alma’s inner world here, but not yet past the guardrails.

👀 We’ve broken down each of these pieces — and their real-world sources — in our full feature.
🔗 https://filmandfurniture.com/2025/10/after-the-hunt-reveals-the-truth-through-its-interior-design/
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Happy Hallows Eve from all of us at Film and Furniture 🎃👻🪦
31/10/2025

Happy Hallows Eve from all of us at Film and Furniture 🎃👻🪦

By the time we reach the dining room and kitchen, After the Hunt shifts from personality to lineage — this is the histor...
31/10/2025

By the time we reach the dining room and kitchen, After the Hunt shifts from personality to lineage — this is the history Alma (Julia Roberts) is standing on.

The dining room centres on a Josef Hoffmann table that Production Designer Stefano Baisi () sourced after visiting Lobmeyr in Vienna — an heirloom-level object softened with domestic touches so it feels inherited rather than displayed.

The kitchen carries the earliest generational layer: cool, orderly, European modernism — the echo of émigré grandparents and early Bauhaus restraint. This is not trend, but origin.

And then the hallway: the Alvaro Barrington fish painting from Guadagnino’s own collection, a quiet marker of migration, identity and selfhood beneath the polish.

Here, the house stops being scenery and becomes biography.

👀 We’ve broken down these symbolic rooms — and more hidden design logic from Baisi — in our full feature.at https://filmandfurniture.com/2025/10/after-the-hunt-reveals-the-truth-through-its-interior-design/.

Last day to take advantage of our rare discounts on officially licensed Hicks Hexagon “The Shining” rugs, tea towels and...
31/10/2025

Last day to take advantage of our rare discounts on officially licensed Hicks Hexagon “The Shining” rugs, tea towels and cushions!

In After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino uses interiors the way other directors use confessionals — the room speaks before the...
29/10/2025

In After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino uses interiors the way other directors use confessionals — the room speaks before the character does.

We meet Alma (Julia Roberts) through her apartment: a Manhattan-style Classic Seven transplanted to Yale, signalling an intellectual world built on curation, heritage and cultivated taste. New Haven on paper, Upper West Side in psychology.

The living spaces are her “public self” — red walls and deep to***co velvets, then a soft shift to Morris & Co florals and inherited ease. Even the Verner Panton Flowerpot lamp feels like a quiet credential rather than décor. The modernist silhouettes, the African sculptures, the enfilade layout: everything is a cue.

Before Alma says a word, the furniture tells us who she believes herself to be.

Spot any other design ‘tells’ in this room?

👀 Explore the full apartment and its hidden symbolism — with exclusive insights from Production Designer Stefano Baisi () — in our latest feature
👉🏼LINK IN BIO

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