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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fight Club

Fight Club

Man of Steel

Man of Steel

Minority Report

Minority Report

The Terminal

The Terminal

Watchmen

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🖤 What happens when you paint a bedroom black? In

🖤 What happens when you paint a bedroom black?
In Park Avenue, writer–director @gabydellal turns colour into emotion. The film’s intimate mother–daughter story unfolds inside an Upper East Side apartment where design speaks louder than dialogue.

For Kit’s bedroom, Dellal chose inky black walls to make Fiona Shaw’s satin pyjamas and red hair glow against the darkness — a space of beauty, memory, and melancholy.

“We found another apartment with black walls,” she told us. “It was awful — but we said, whatever we do, we’re painting the bedroom black.”

From the distressed pink silk headboard (borrowed from Dellal’s own home) to apricot sheers that catch the Manhattan light, this is production design to inspire our own homes.

👉🏼 Watch the full video podcast - LINK IN BIO
🍿 @parkavenuethemovie is in UK and Irish cinemas now.
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🕯️ Reflections, doubles and the search for identit

🕯️ Reflections, doubles and the search for identity.
In Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, mirrors and circles recur like haunted symbols — echoing the film’s questions of creation and self. Dressing tables and vanity mirrors become sites of introspection as much as beauty; the architecture itself seems to question what it means to be human.

We’re exploring these film sets and interiors — from the corroded grandeur of Frankenstein’s lab to the candlelit vanities of the family estate — and we’ll soon be speaking with production designer Tamara Deverell herself.

What would you like to ask her? 🪞💬
Share your questions below — on mirrors, identity, the lab’s design, or the gothic furniture that frames this darkly poetic world.

(production design: Tamara Deverell @tamdev
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is streaming now on @Netflix
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In this clip from our latest video podcast ,writer

In this clip from our latest video podcast ,writer-director @gabydellal 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 @fionashawislife and @katherinewaterston, 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.
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@parkavenuethemovie is in UK and Irish cinemas from 14th November

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In Park Avenue, writer-director Gaby Dellal brings

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 in PARK AVENUE - LINK IN BIO
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@parkavenuethemovie is OUT IN CINEMAS IN UK AND IRELAND NOW.
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🎧 Inside Park Avenue: A Love Letter to New York Th

🎧 Inside Park Avenue: A Love Letter to New York Through Design and Storytelling

In our latest episode of The Film and Furniture Podcast, host Paula Benson sits down with writer-director @gabydellal to explore the layered interiors, emotional undercurrents, and design-led storytelling of @parkavenuethemovie - 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.

👉 Watch the full video podcast now — LINK IN BIO
PARK AVENUE is UK & Irish cinemas from 14th November.
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With thanks to @arprpublicity
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Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) remains one of cine

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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