Paula Benson

Exclusive! The ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Enterprise blends midcentury design with SciFi futurism – Part 2

How do you augment the Star Trek Enterprise? It’s a seemingly impossible task given that...

Exclusive! The ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Enterprise fuses midcentury design with SciFi futurism – Part 1

How do you augment the Star Trek Enterprise? It's a seemingly impossible task given...

The power of plants in film

Plants are amazing, there’s no denying that. Incorporating plants into our homes connects us to nature and can add architectural interest and colour to our interior design scheme. Importantly, they also clean the air....

The Thing coffee table: A dedication to the cult classic for the film’s 40th anniversary

John Carpenter has said that of all his films, The Thing is his personal favourite. It's also a favourite on one film fan who...

Lights and lamps inspiration from film and TV

Remember Amelie's cute bedside pig lamp? Or the dynamic curve of the Arco floor lamp in Iron Man's house? Or maybe it's the abundance of retro table lamps in the Bond movies of the...

Interiors inspiration from the film sets of Conversations with Friends

The TV series Conversations With Friends had a lot to live up to after the huge success of Normal People. Both are adaptations of books by Irish author Sally...

Enchanté! The french villa in Downton Abbey: A New Era

For Downton’s second movie Downton Abbey: A New Era set in 1928, the Crawley family up roots from the English countryside to a gorgeous getaway pad in the south...

Dr No to No Time to Die – 60 Years of Bond film sets

In 1962, Sean Connery introduced Ian Fleming’s James Bond to cinema audiences and the visionary Ken Adam established a look and feel for Bond film sets that broke new...

The filmsets and furniture of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “A real horrorshow” Part 2

Half a century on, A Clockwork Orange remains a source of controversy and discussion despite being largely embargoed for nearly three of those five...