Paula Benson, Author at Film and Furniture

Paula Benson

Feature: 06 Nov 2018

Home Futures: Have yesterday’s fantasies have become today’s reality?

Throughout history movies have been a medium for exploring ideas of how we might live in the future. Visionary directors, production designers and set...

Feature: 29 Oct 2018

Suspiria: A chromatic journey through Dario Argento’s horror classic

For two decades I've had every intention of seeing Dario Argento's 1977 horror classic Suspiria but never quite managed to get around to it. I'm...

Feature: 27 Oct 2018

Johnny English Strikes Again: The secrets of designing film sets for a secret agent

Rowan Atkinson returns to our screens as the much loved accidental secret agent in Johnny English Strikes Again. Out now in cinemas, the new...

Feature: 05 Oct 2018

Heeere’s Stanley! ‘Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition’ to open in The Design Museum, London

As the saying goes "All good things come to those who wait" and yesterday The Design Museum announced an exhibition...

Feature: 10 Sep 2018

How to get the Lara Jean look: Exclusive interview with ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ Production Designer

When we published a short feature on the colour themes of To All The Boys I’ve...

Resources: 22 Aug 2018

We’ve been nominated as Best Design Inspiration Blog – again!

I am thrilled to announce that Film and Furniture has been nominated for the Best Design Inspiration Blog in the Amara Interior Blog Awards...

Feature: 18 Aug 2018

Licensed HAL 9000 computer replicas with bluetooth and voice command

Update 12.1.21: Since publishing this article in August 2018 it has come to our attention that the Master Replica Group, the company behind the crowdfunding project for the HAL...

Feature: 02 Aug 2018

Exclusive! An original ‘2001’ Djinn chair from Kubrick’s film set has emerged and settles a debate

A rare, original Djinn chair from the actual film set of Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) has just...

Feature: 27 Jul 2018

#FFFind: The picture of woman with afro in The Shining

We've had several requests to investigate the story behind the pictures of captivating black women with afros in Kubrick's The Shining. These pictures hang in Dick Hallorann's (Scatman Corothers)...