Paula Benson

Backrooms: The Furniture Film of the Year?

Forget the hype. Backrooms deserves every bit of it. On the surface, it's an unsettling horror film. Underneath, it's one of the strangest and most fascinating pieces of furniture cinema we've seen in years....

Interiors Inspiration from Emily in Paris: The Sets Behind the Style

From Emily's charming Paris apartment and the elegant offices of Agence Grateau to the richly decorated Rome interiors introduced in later seasons, Emily in Paris has provided plenty of...

Toy Story 5 Is Coming: Tech vs Toys and Why the Design Details Matter

Pixar’s Toy Story franchise has spent more than three decades reimagining playrooms, bedrooms and the secret lives of toys. Along the way it has given us some wonderfully observed...

The Christophers and the art of the artist’s house

Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers revolves around an ageing artist, his unfinished paintings, and the opportunistic children determined to track them down. But the film’s real centrepiece may well be...

A sofa that deserves gawping at: The de Sede Terrazza sofa in film

Designed by Ubald Klug for De Sede in 1972, the DS-1025 Terrazza is less a sofa and more a landscape. Its stepped, modular form invites you to sit, recline,...

Interior Design Lessons from Oscar Winning Movies

We recently wrote a feature for Holloways of Ludlow exploring the interiors and furniture in Oscar-winning films, and the design lessons they hold for our own homes. From the Norwegian...

A Home That Remembers: The Design of Sentimental Value

This feature comes to you in partnership with Holloways of Ludlow It is often said that a house can become “a character" in a film. In Sentimental Value, that has...

Decor and Design Details to Love in Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell’s 2026 adaptation of Wuthering Heights moves decisively away from traditional windswept naturalism and treats design as emotional voltage, using architecture and surface to heighten every feeling. Starring Margot...

2026 Film Awards Part 3: Oscar and BAFTA Production Design Snubs

In Part 2 of our Film Awards 2026 series, we looked at the films officially recognised by the Academy Awards and BAFTAs for production design. But awards lists, by...