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⚖️ Power has a palette in Sky’s new legal drama WA

⚖️ Power has a palette in Sky’s new legal drama WAR.

The eight-part series, created by George Kay of Lupin and Hijack, follows two rival London law firms battling over the divorce of British tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson, played by Dominic West, and international film star Carla Duval, played by Sienna Miller.

The interiors set up a strong visual divide between the worlds competing for control: dark timber, rich brown tones, mustard upholstery and brass detailing in the more traditional spaces, contrasted with glass walls, pale surfaces and cool blue corporate precision.

we’ve already spotted a couple of favourites.

There’s a Poul Henningsen PH table lamp for Louis Poulsen, its layered shades adding a warm pool of orange light to one of the darker office interiors.
Henningsen’s famous three-shade system was developed to produce soft, glare-free illumination, which makes it especially effective here against all that polished wood and corporate seriousness.

Even better, there’s a Howard Keith Diplomat sofa, one of our long-standing favourites at Film and Furniture. Its low, generous form and unmistakably 1960s/70s glamour look very much at home in this world of money, power and expensive legal manoeuvring. Film and Furniture also acts as an agent for the buying and selling of original Howard Keith pieces, including the Diplomat.

The strongest design moment may be the mustard sofa sitting on that extraordinary geometric circular floor, seen from directly above. It turns a legal consultation into something almost graphic and stage-like.

👀 Find furniture and décor in film and TV at FilmandFurniture.com (link in bio)

WAR started streaming weekly from 2 October on @skytv and NOW.

Production Designer: Debbie Burton
Set Decorator: Emma Fisher

🛋️ Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.10, The D

🛋️ Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.10, The Design Classics Edition, Part 2

Some design classics are all chrome, structure and straight lines. Part 2 gets considerably squishier.

Here are three sofas that have earned their place in the design canon through very different approaches to the art of lounging.

The wonderfully slouchy Mags Soft by HAY appears in Ready Player One, where a huge cognac leather modular version sits comfortably amongst the film’s distinctly less comfortable vision of 2045.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s curvaceous Ploum sofa for Ligne Roset was designed around the idea of total postural comfort. A pair appear in The Drama when Charlie visits his friend Rachel’s workplace, bringing a very recognisable piece of contemporary design into the mix.

And then there’s Michel Ducaroy’s Togo, designed for Ligne Roset in 1973 and still looking gloriously relaxed more than half a century later. In White Lines, its low, crumpled form and burnt-orange upholstery are entirely at home in Boxer’s eclectic Ibiza apartment.

Three very different approaches to comfort. Three sofas with serious staying power.

🔎 Find these and hundreds more pieces of furniture from film and TV at filmandfurniture.com
🔗 Link in bio.

Stay tuned for more Sunday Sofas...

Ready Player One (2018)
D: Steven Spielberg | PD: Adam Stockhausen | SD: Anna Pinnock
The Drama (2026)
D: Kristoffer Borgli | PD: Zosia Mackenzie | SD: Vanessa Knoll
White Lines (2020)
PD: Mike Gunn | SD: Amparo Piñeiro, Eona McCallum, Graham Ward

❤️ RED: Rooms + Interiors in Film and TV, Part 2

❤️ RED: Rooms + Interiors in Film and TV, Part 2

Sometimes red appears as a single piece of furniture. Sometimes it dominates the whole room.

Across these films, red works through walls, carpets, bathrooms, upholstery, rugs and whole architectural spaces. It can make an interior feel plush and decadent, playful, futuristic, theatrical or freak you out entirely.

In The Grand Budapest Hotel and Paddington, red is exuberant and enveloping.

Glass Onion pushes it into full-blown luxury, with that huge de Sede-esque curved red sofa, red rug and red lamp all holding their own.

Scarface uses red to sharpen its gleaming white interiors, while The Big Lebowski and The Royal Tenenbaums show how red can bring warmth, pattern and personality into very different domestic spaces.

Then there are those unforgettable bathrooms. The Shining turns red and white into something graphic and spooky, while The Substance revisits the combination with its own clinical unease.

In The Skin I Live In and Megalopolis, red upholstery becomes one of the most commanding elements in the room.

Red is rarely shy.

Which red room would you actually want to spend time in?

🔎 Find furniture and décor from film and TV at filmandfurniture.com
🔗 Link in bio.

Stay tuned for Part 3: RED: Love, Danger + Desire.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
D: Wes Anderson | PD: Adam Stockhausen | SD: Anna Pinnock IMDb

Paddington (2014)
D: Paul King | PD: Gary Williamson | SD: Cathy Cosgrove

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
D: Rian Johnson | PD: Rick Heinrichs | SD: Elli Griff

The Substance (2024)
D: Coralie Fargeat | PD: Stanislas Reydellet | SD: Cécilia Blom, Marion De Villechabrolle, Pierre Strub

The Shining (1980)
D: Stanley Kubrick | PD: Roy Walker

Scarface (1983)
D: Brian De Palma | PD: Ferdinando Scarfiotti | SD: Bruce Weintraub

The Big Lebowski (1998)
D: Joel Coen | PD: Rick Heinrichs | SD: Chris L. Spellman

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
D: Wes Anderson | PD: David Wasco | SD: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

The Skin I Live In (2011)
D: Pedro Almodóvar | PD: Antxón Gómez | SD: Vicent Díaz

Megalopolis (2024)
D: Francis Ford Coppola | PD: Beth Mickle, Bradley Rubin | SD: Lisa K. Sessions

Today is World James Bond Day 🍸 On 5 October 1962

Today is World James Bond Day 🍸

On 5 October 1962, Dr. No premiered in London and James Bond arrived on the big screen. So we’re celebrating 007 in the Film and Furniture way: through the furniture, lighting and interiors of the Bond films.

Because alongside the Aston Martins, gadgets and dinner jackets, Bond has given us some seriously good furniture design:-

Robin Day’s Leo chair in You Only Live Twice, where Sean Connery’s Bond takes a seat in one of Britain’s great mid-century designs.

Then there’s Bodil Kjær’s magnificent office desk, which became something of a Bond regular, appearing in From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Verner Panton’s sculptural Pantonova seating system furnished Karl Stromberg’s extraordinary Atlantis lair in The Spy Who Loved Me, while Joe Colombo’s futuristic Elda chair also found itself perfectly at home in the same film.

These pieces helped establish the sophisticated, modern and frequently fantastical visual language of Bond, particularly in the extraordinary sets created by production designer Ken Adam.

Swipe through some of our favourite pieces from the 007 universe, then head to FilmandFurniture.com to discover the stories behind them and find many of the designs for your own home.

Which piece of Bond furniture would you take home?

Happy World James Bond Day, from Film and Furniture. 🍸🎬🪑

🛋️ Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.10, The D

🛋️ Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.10, The Design Classics Edition, Part 1

Great sofas have long lives, and some collect an impressive number of screen credits along the way.

For Part 1 of our Design Classics Edition, we’re looking at pieces whose shapes, materials and design history have made them recurring stars of film and TV.

Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret’s LC2 and LC3 turn up in some very different worlds: the severe modern interiors of Conclave, Maude Lebowski’s chaotic art studio in The Big Lebowski, John Gray’s office in 9½ Weeks and the hotel interiors of Judy.

Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Day Bed has an equally impressive screen career, appearing in Bruce Wayne’s modernist home in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, as well as Companion and Amanda.

Then there’s a fabulous Paul Frankl-style rattan sofa in The Uninvited, perfectly at home in its layered Hollywood Hills interior.

And, naturally, we couldn’t talk design classics without Howard Keith. The striped Barbican takes a starring role aboard Elton John’s private jet in Rocketman, while the Diplomat appears in The Romantic Englishwoman.
We also act as an agent for the buying and selling of original Howard Keith sofas, so if you have one to sell, or you’re hunting for one, do get in touch.

🔎 Find furniture from film and TV at filmandfurniture.com
🔗 Link in bio.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Design Classics Edition next Sunday...

Conclave (2024)
D: @eeedwardberger PD: @suziedav SD: @cynthia_sleiter

The Big Lebowski (1998)
D: Joel Coen PD: @rick.heinrichs SD: Chris L. Spellman

9½ Weeks (1986)
D: Adrian Lyne PD: Ken Davis SD: Christian Kelly

Judy (2019)
D: Rupert Goold PD: @kaveq SD: @stellafoxdesign

Amanda (2022)
D: Carolina Cavalli PD: Martino Bonanomi

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
D: Zack Snyder PD: @ptatopoulos SD: @callidonia

Companion (2025)
D: Drew Hancock PD: Scott Kuzio SD: Kendall Anderson

Rocketman (2019)
D: Dexter Fletcher PD: @marcusrowland SD: @farrjude

The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
D: Joseph Losey PD: Richard Macdonald

The Uninvited (2024)
D: @nadiasomerset PD: Chad Tatham SD: Andrew Caso

❤️ RED: Furniture, Lighting + Objects in Film and

❤️ RED: Furniture, Lighting + Objects in Film and TV, Part 1

RED makes a piece of design work hard on screen.

A red lamp can pull your eye across a room. A red chair becomes even more sculptural. A red sofa can turn an otherwise tight-lipped interior into something far more assertive. Even a typewriter or fruit bowl suddenly becomes part of the story.

Pedro Almodóvar has long understood the power of red, from the Tolomeo desk lamp in Julieta to the vivid glass bowl in Parallel Mothers.

In How Do You Know, red appears in Gaetano Pesce’s Serie Up 2000 chair (in stripes_ and Marc Sadler’s Twiggy floor lamp.

Then there are the design classics: Florence Knoll seating in Mad Men, Poul Henningsen’s PH pendant in Widows, Verner Panton’s Flowerpot pendant in Conversations with Friends, and the bright red Valentine typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass and Perry King, glimpsed in A Clockwork Orange.

And perhaps the ultimate red seating moment: Olivier Mourgue’s Djinn chairs in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where their saturated colour and curved form stand out brilliantly against the film’s white futuristic interiors.

Which red piece would you happily take home? If it's by chance the Djinn chair from 2001 we sell originals here at Film and Furniture.

🔎 Find furniture, lighting and décor from film and TV at filmandfurniture.com
🔗 Link in bio.

Stay tuned for Part 2: RED Rooms + Interiors.

Julieta (2016)
D: Pedro Almodóvar | PD: Antxón Gómez | SD: Federico García Cambero

How Do You Know (2010)
D: James L. Brooks | PD: Jeannine Oppewall | SD: Merideth Boswell, Nancy Nye

Mad Men (2007–2015)
PD: Dan Bishop | SD: Claudette Didul

Widows (2018)
D: Steve McQueen | PD: Adam Stockhausen | SD: Elizabeth Keenan

Conversations with Friends (2022)
PD: Anna Rackard | SD: Sophie Phillips

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
D: Stanley Kubrick | PD: John Barry

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
D: Stanley Kubrick | PD: Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, Anthony Masters | SD: Robert Cartwright

Parallel Mothers (2021)
D: Pedro Almodóvar | PD: Antxón Gómez | SD: Vicent Díaz

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