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Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.5, The Loung Sunday Sofas: Sofas in Film and TV No.5, The Lounging Edition

Sometimes a sofa’s most valuable role is to support the serious business of doing not very much.

On screen, sofas provide somewhere to stretch out, read, smoke, snack, sleep, recover, retreat from the world or share the cushions with a lover, a friend, a vampire or a badly behaved teddy bear.

From high end modernist seating and a repurposed bathtub to battered domestic workhorses, these are pieces made, borrowed or commandeered for relaxed living.

Here are our pick of sofas for anyone who regards sitting upright as a little too formal for Sunday.

Stay tuned for more Sunday Sofas...

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1. A Single Man (2009)
Diretor Tom Ford
Production Design Dan Bishop
Ser Decoration Amy Wells
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
D Jim Jarmusch
PD Marco Bittner Rosser
SD Christiane Krumwiede, Malte Nitsche

2. Ted (2012)
D Seth MacFarlane
PD Stephen J. Lineweaver
SD Kyra Friedman Curcio and Chris Carnes

3. Mad Men (2007–2015)
Created by Matthew Weiner
PD Dan Bishop
SD Amy Wells and Claudette Didul

4. All of Us Strangers (2023)
D Andrew Haigh
PD Sarah Finlay
SD  Marian Murray

6. Atonement (2007)
D Joe Wright
PD Sarah Greenwood
SD Katie Spencer
Betty Blue (1986)
D Jean-Jacques Beineix
PD Carlos Conti
SD Jacques Leguillon

7. North by Northwest (1959)
D Alfred Hitchcock
PD Robert F. Boyle
SD Henry Grace and Frank McKelvey

8. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
D Blake Edwards
AD Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson
SD  Sam Comer and Ray Moyer
The Room Next Door (2024)
D Pedro Almodóvar
PD Inbal Weinberg
SD Kendall Anderson, Carlota Casado 

9. Domino (2005)
D Tony Scott
PD Chris Seagers
SD Nancy Nye
Ma (2019)
D Tate Taylor
PD Marc Fisichella
SD Carmen Navi
The first-look images and teaser trailer for Verit The first-look images and teaser trailer for Verity have arrived and, alongside Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, the Crawford house has thoroughly caught our attention.

Adapted from Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, the psychological thriller follows struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, played by Johnson, who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for renowned author Verity Crawford, played by Hathaway.

After discovering what appear to be Verity’s deeply disturbing autobiographical notes, Lowen becomes increasingly drawn into the lives of Verity and her husband Jeremy, played by Hartnett. Fiction, confession, manipulation, attraction and obsession begin to blur.

The trailer also gives us a tantalising glimpse of an incredible house, which appears to be Beckoning Path in Armonk, Westchester County, New York, used as the Crawford residence.

Designed in the 1960s by Danish designer Jens Quistgaard for Ted Nierenberg, founder of Dansk International Designs, the 8,000-square-foot lakeside home was later restored by architecture firm BarlisWedlick.

Its Scandinavian timber, vaulted ceilings, expansive glass walls and extraordinary sawtooth copper roof give the house a seductive, slightly sinister presence. Inside, we are already admiring the warm wood panelling, layered lighting and those superb built-in bookshelves. A bestselling author’s home clearly requires shelving with some gravitas.

And is that a set of dining chairs by Søren Nissen and Ebbe Gehl for Seltz, France, we spy around the dining table?

We will have to wait until 2 October 2026 to see more, but the Crawford house is already shaping up to be one of the film’s most compelling characters.

Verity is directed by Michael Showalter.

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🪑🎬 NEW FEATURE. Blade Runner furniture and interio 🪑🎬 NEW FEATURE. Blade Runner furniture and interiors: from Los Angeles 2019 to 2049 and 2099

What makes the world of Blade Runner still feel so believable more than 40 years later?

It's not just the story. It's the furniture, lighting, architecture and interiors.

From Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House and Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Argyle chair to Cini Boeri's iconic whisky glass, the original Blade Runner created a future built from real design. 

Blade Runner 2049 expanded that vision with Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola's monumental interiors, Pierre Paulin's Ribbon chair, Friedrich W. Möller's Conseta chair and Umberto Riva's E63 lamp.

With Blade Runner 2099 arriving this November, we've revisited the furniture, lighting and interior design that have shaped one of cinema's most influential visual worlds, and explored why these pieces still look like the future.

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We saw Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey last night We saw Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey last night and, truthfully, weren’t expecting to be quite so gripped by it. There is enough depth, philosophical thought and a thunderous Ludwig Göransson soundtrack to keep us hooked across its vast running time.

Furniture is understandably scarce. Odysseus has gods, monsters and several thousand nautical miles to contend with, so there is little opportunity to browse for a sideboard. Yet the objects that do appear carry enormous narrative weight.

Penelope’s loom is one of the most powerful.

Seen in her chamber, it is based on the warp-weighted loom used in the ancient Greek world: a tall timber frame with vertical threads held taut by rows of weights, often made from fired clay.

In Homer’s story, Penelope promises to choose a new husband once she has completed a burial shroud for Laertes. She weaves by day and secretly unpicks the cloth each night, using the slow progress of the work to keep her suitors at bay.

For the film, Anne Hathaway practised on a small loom before moving on to the full-sized working version built for the set. The room becomes part workshop, part sanctuary and part prison. While Odysseus fights across the sea, Penelope holds her household and kingdom together one thread at a time.

And then, of course, there is the Trojan Horse.

Nolan presents it as a vast piece of architecture, monumental from the outside and horribly claustrophobic within. Soldiers cling to its internal beams, hidden inside the object that will carry them through Troy’s defences.

It is design used as deception: a sacred offering engineered to conceal an army, and a physical expression of Odysseus’s cunning.

So while The Odyssey offers few conventional interiors, it understands exactly how objects can drive a story.

A loom holding a kingdom together.
A wooden horse built to bring another one down.

Have you seen it yet?

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💛 Yellow is one of cinema’s great contradictions. 💛 Yellow is one of cinema’s great contradictions.

It can suggest warmth, nostalgia and innocence, or create a sense of obsession, decay and psychological unease. In American Hustle, mustard and gold amplify the deliciously excessive 1970s interiors. Wes Anderson turns yellow into something playful, nostalgic and meticulously composed in The Royal Tenenbaums and Isle of Dogs. In Blade Runner 2049, an overwhelming amber haze signals heat, toxicity and a world in decline, while the sickly yellow rooms of Backrooms transform an ordinary office palette into pure liminal dread.

From the sun-soaked glow of Licorice Pizza to the shadowy interiors of The Handmaiden, yellow can feel comforting, claustrophobic, seductive or deeply strange.

Which yellow screen world stays with you?

🎬 Featured, in order:

American Hustle (2013)
Director: David O. Russell
Production Design: Judy Becker
Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Director: Wes Anderson
Production Design: David Wasco
Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

Isle of Dogs (2018)
Director: Wes Anderson
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen and Paul Harrod

Alice (2022)
Director: Krystin Ver Linden
Production Design: Gregory A. Weimerskirch
Set Decoration: Laura Wallgren

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Production Design: Dennis Gassner
Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola and Zsuzsanna Sipos

Licorice Pizza (2021)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Production Design: Florencia Martin
Set Decoration: Ryan Watson

Peaky Blinders
Production Design: Grant Montgomery

Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Director: Taika Waititi
Production Design: Ra Vincent
Set Decoration: Nora Sopková

Backrooms (2026)
Director: Kane Parsons
Production Design: Danny Vermette
Set Decoration: Trevor Johnston

The Handmaiden (2016)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Production Design: Ryu Seong-hie
Hi, Paula here from Film and Furniture. If you’ve Hi, Paula here from Film and Furniture.

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on inside the mind of Wes Anderson, Wes Anderson: The Archives at @designmuseum is well worth a visit.

Seeing the sketches, storyboards, props, miniature models and handwritten notes gives you a real appreciation of the extraordinary attention to detail behind every frame. It’s a fascinating insight into the creative process of a filmmaker with such a distinctive vision.

The exhibition has now been extended until 16 August, so there’s still time to catch it.

Nicely done @agermanross @savilucia @matthieu_orlean 

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