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Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.8, The Retro

Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.8, The Retro Edition 📺

How do filmmakers furnish the recent past? Very often with patterned upholstery, warm woods, cocktail-hour colours and sofas that look wonderfully lived-in.

For this edition we’re heading into the 1950s, 60s and 70s, or cinema and television’s version of them. From The Apartment to the stylised nostalgia of Asteroid City, the suburban polish of Far from Heaven and the moody Americana of Blue Velvet, these sofas help build entire worlds.

Mad Men, A Complete Unknown and Elvis use seating to evoke taste and era, while My Best Friend’s Wedding, Maid and Elephant remind us that retro can also feel faded, awkward or gloriously ordinary. Father Mother Sister Brother, Stranger Things and even The Incredibles show how persuasive older design languages remain, whether cosy, uncanny or gently comic.

A sofa in film has to work hard.

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Stranger Things (2016)
Created by: Matt and Ross Duffer | PD: Chris Trujillo

Mad Men (2007)
Created by: Matthew Weiner | PD: Dan Bishop | SD: Claudette Didul

A Complete Unknown (2024)
D: James Mangold | PD: François Audouy @audouy | SD: Regina Graves @reginamgee

My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
D: P. J. Hogan | PD: J. Dennis Washington | SD: Merideth Boswell

Elvis (2022)
D: Baz Luhrmann | PD: Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy | SD: Beverley Dunn

Maid (2021)
Created by: Molly Smith Metzler | PD: John Paino

Father Mother Sister Brother
D: Jim Jarmusch

Far from Heaven (2002)
D: Todd Haynes | PD: Mark Friedberg | SD: Denise Pizzini

Elephant (2003)
D: Gus Van Sant | PD: John Pearson

Blue Velvet (1986)
D: David Lynch | PD: Patricia Norris

The Incredibles (2004)
D: Brad Bird | PD: Lou Romano

Asteroid City (2023)
D: Wes Anderson | PD: Adam Stockhausen | SD: Katie Spencer @katie_wallis_spencer

The Apartment (1960)
D: Billy Wilder | PD: Alexandre Trauner | SD: Edward G. Boyle

Bathrooms in Film No. 4: Readers’ Choice You had

Bathrooms in Film No. 4: Readers’ Choice

You had thoughts. Lots of them.

After the first two instalments of Bathrooms in Film, you told us exactly which bathrooms we’d missed. So No. 4 belongs to you.

The pick for first place was clear as bathwater: Scarface. Tony Montana’s vast sunken bathtub sits amid cream carpet, marble columns, gold detailing and a chandelier, facing the television, naturally. Subtlety was never really Tony’s thing.

Also nominated were Performance, Quadrophenia, American Pie, The Women, Casino Royale, Mission: Impossible and The Aviator, with thanks to @tiffanycsteinke, @stephen_pochin, @smilewrangler, jepney_queen, @randibergman, @m.r.cochrane and everyone else who joined in.

And The Aviator gives us a particularly good bit of interiors spotting: its bathroom features Martinique, the famous green banana-leaf wallpaper created in 1942 by Remy and Lucile Chatain with illustrator Albert Stockdale. The pattern was later used by designer Don Loper at the Beverly Hills Hotel and has been turning up on screen ever since.
🛍️ Details on where to buy this for your own home in our Marketplace.

And yes, The Shining and Saltburn were among your demands too. We heard you. They’ve made it into the series (see previous posts)

What have we STILL missed?

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🍺 The square Mexican beer glass that sent Film and

🍺 The square Mexican beer glass that sent Film and Furniture on another mission.

A Film and Furniture reader asked us to identify the extraordinary thick, square glasses they’d spotted in Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico.

So we went looking.

We discovered they’re called Copa Chabela Cuadrada, traditional Mexican glasses used for beer and, rather brilliantly, designed to be drunk from the corner.

Their ultra-thick glass helps keep your drink colder for longer, and you can even put them in the freezer first to chill the glass before pouring.

Finding out what they were proved easier than finding somewhere we could actually buy them.

Eventually we tracked down a small supplier in Mexico willing to send them to the UK, and started importing them ourselves.

Each holds a generous 600ml and they work beautifully for beer, but also for ceviche, seafood cocktails, starters and desserts.

They’re available individually, in pairs or sets of four from Film and Furniture.

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Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.7 - The Futu

Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.7 - The Future Edition 🚀

How do filmmakers furnish the future? Quite often, with a fantastic sofa.

Science fiction has long used furniture to tell us what tomorrow might look and feel like. Sleek or strange, optimistic or dystopian, a sofa can reveal plenty about the world we’ve entered, and about the era in which that future was imagined.

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, Stanley Kubrick filled Space Station 5 with Olivier Mourgue’s sculptural Djinn chairs and 2-seat sofas, designed just three years earlier. Their low, fluid forms and vivid colour became inseparable from Kubrick’s vision of the 21st century.

In The Hunger Games, the Capitol’s huge serpentine de Sede DS-600, first launched in the 1970s, becomes part of a future built on decadence and excess.

Then there’s the joyless seating of Blade Runner 2049; the polished space-liner luxury of Passengers; the immaculate white-and-blue minimalism of Oblivion; and the retro-futurism of Incredibles 2, with its conversation pits and built-in seating.

More recently, The Fantastic Four: First Steps plays with the same idea, creating a 1960s-inspired future filled with curves, colour and sweeping sofas.

And if Kubrick’s future is the one for you, Film and Furniture sells professionally restored Djinn chairs and 2-seat sofas, increasingly collectible pieces of screen design.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
D: Stanley Kubrick | PD/AD: Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernest Archer

The Hunger Games (2012)
D: Gary Ross | PD: Philip Messina | SD: Larry Dias

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
D: Denis Villeneuve | PD: Dennis Gassner | SD: Alessandra Querzola

Passengers (2016)
D: Morten Tyldum | PD: Guy Hendrix Dyas | SD: Gene Serdena

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
D: Matt Shakman | PD: Kasra Farahani | SD: Jille Azis

Incredibles 2 (2018)
D: Brad Bird | PD: Ralph Eggleston

Oblivion (2013)
D: Joseph Kosinski | PD: Darren Gilford

🎬 La La Land at 10: beyond the dancing, the interi

🎬 La La Land at 10: beyond the dancing, the interiors are doing plenty of storytelling too.

Damien Chazelle’s La La Land returns to cinemas from 16 August, ten years after its debut, and we’ve been looking again at the film through its furniture, lighting and interiors.

💗 Mia’s apartment is exuberant and theatrical. Floral wallpaper, mismatched patterned bedding, a huge Ingrid Bergman portrait, vintage lamps, an old dresser and bursts of red, pink and turquoise create the home of someone already living partly inside her own Hollywood fantasy.

As Mia works on her one-woman show, the living room becomes a creative sprawl: pages across the floor, a faded orange sofa, upright piano, small wooden tables and domestic lamps.

🎹 Sebastian’s apartment is far more stripped back. Pale walls, hard daylight through Venetian blinds, a simple bed and little decoration leave the piano, records and record player to dominate.

And then there’s the Griffith Observatory, where its monumental stone interior, Art Deco lighting and great circular Foucault pendulum become part of the choreography.

Production designer David Wasco and set decorator Sandy Reynolds-Wasco give Mia and Sebastian very different visual worlds. Ten years later, there is still a lot to look at.

Which La La Land interior would you move into? 🎹💃

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Few filmmakers make ordinary interiors feel as uns

Few filmmakers make ordinary interiors feel as unsettling as David Lynch.

In Blue Velvet, pastel diner booths, pink bedrooms, floral fabrics, old televisions and familiar furniture all seem ordinary at first. Then it all goes off on one.

Dorothy Vallens’ apartment is where that unease starts to grip. Dusky plum-purple walls, green curtains, heavy upholstery and pools of lamplight give the room a theatrical quality. There’s also a surprising plethora of snake plants, their tall, graphic leaves looking especially striking against those purple walls and adding another slightly surreal note.

Lynch creates dread through suggestion. A lamp, a curtain, a sofa or an apparently ordinary room can feel charged with something ominous through colour, lighting, composition and what might be waiting just beyond the frame.

Costume designer Patricia Norris also worked closely with Lynch on the film’s visual world, helping shape the sets, colours and atmosphere that make Blue Velvet feel both recognisable and suitably strange.

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Blue Velvet (1986), written and directed by David Lynch.

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