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From Boston to San Francisco via New York: film ap From Boston to San Francisco via New York: film apartments we’d happily move into.

A @filmandfurniture x @hollowaysofludlow collaboration.

Apartments in film can tell us a huge amount about the people who live in them, from the furniture they choose to the art, lighting and objects around them.

In The Drama, Charlie and Emma’s Boston apartment mixes mid-century furniture, contemporary art and some very good lighting.

The Invite takes us to San Francisco, where rugs, paint colours and a bathroom renovation become part of the conversation.

Park Avenue gives us an Upper East Side home collected over a lifetime, while The Fantastic Four: First Steps imagines a retro-futurist Manhattan penthouse filled with design classics.

And in After the Hunt, a layered New Haven interior brings together Wiener Werkstätte and Bauhaus influences.

And because admiring the furniture is only half the fun, we’ve picked out the designs, lighting and ideas that can make the journey from screen to your own home, and where to find them.

See the feature “10 film apartments to fall in love with, and where to find the furniture and décor for your own home”
🔗 Link in @filmandfurniture bio
Country piles, Italian palazzi, Riva boats and one Country piles, Italian palazzi, Riva boats and one very memorable outdoor kitchen and BBQ grill table. The Gentlemen is back.

Season 2 takes Eddie Horniman (Theo James, @theojamesit) and Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario, @kayascods) from Halstead Manor’s wood-panelled rooms, antique paintings and gun cabinets to Lake Maggiore, grand Italian villas, terraces and Riva boats.

The Horniman estate remains at the heart of the series, while Italy brings a different kind of grandeur to the story. And down by the lake at Halstead, the BBQ grill table and outdoor kitchen we fell in love with from Season One  make a welcome return during a post-shooting-party gathering.

👀 Read our full guide to The Gentlemen Season 2 locations, interiors and furniture.

🔗 Link in bio.

Production design: Martyn John (@martyn.9964) and James North (@jamesnorthdesign2)
Season 2 set decoration: Tonja Schurmann

#FilmAndFurniture #TheGentlemen #TheoJames #KayaScodelario #Netflix
The Owens house is back, and we’re willing to over The Owens house is back, and we’re willing to overlook quite a lot of witchcraft for that greenhouse.

Practical Magic 2 arrives this September, with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman returning as the Owens sisters almost three decades after the original film.

The house is romantic, eccentric and very pretty. Yes, Practical Magic operates at the more sugary end of our usual film diet. But give us a good kitchen, an overgrown greenhouse and several rooms full of intriguing furniture and consider us under the spell.

The sequel, based on Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic, brings us back to the family curse, ancestral magic, midnight mischief and the sort of plot that requires at least one candle to blow itself out.

Our attention, naturally, is on the house.

The Owens home was one of the pleasures of the 1998 film: a rambling Victorian concoction of white-painted timber, towers, porches, big windows and vast rooms.

For the original, production designers Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch drew on Victorian architecture, East Coast lighthouses and turn-of-the-century houses. The exterior was constructed for the film on San Juan Island in Washington and dismantled afterwards, while the interiors were built separately on sound stages.

Seeing it recreated for Practical Magic 2 is rather satisfying.

Production designer Tom Burton and Set Decorator Barbara Herman-Skelding have retained much of the character: a large cream-painted kitchen lined with glass-fronted cupboards and drawers, a farmhouse sink, long timber table, open shelving and plenty of jars, crockery, plants and assorted domestic paraphernalia.

And then there is the greenhouse, perhaps our favourite of the new spaces seen so far in the trailer. Vines wander across the windows, flowers and herbs crowd the tables, terracotta pots fill the corners and a lovely wicker chair sits amongst the foliage. Frankly, this is our kind of practical magic. 

Practical Magic 2 (@practicalmagicmovie) opens internationally from 9 Sept 2026.

Production design: Tom Burton
Set Decorator: Barbara Herman-Skelding
Director: Susanne Bier @susannebier

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Wicker is back. Although, judging by the movies, i Wicker is back. Although, judging by the movies, it never really went away.

Rattan and wicker are having another interiors moment, and it’s easy to see why. They bring warmth, texture and a sense of ease to a room, while rattan also has strong sustainability credentials: it is fast-growing, renewable and can be harvested far more quickly than many traditional hardwoods.

Film has been showing us how to use it for decades.

In Call Me By Your Name and Teorema, woven furniture sits beautifully against old stone, gardens and sun-baked European architecture. Saltburn uses it to soften the formality of a grand country estate. In Aftersun, floral-cushioned rattan creates that very particular holiday-hotel look, while Dear White People turns the peacock chair into a full-on visual statement.

In the forthcoming Practical Magic 2, wicker feels completely at home in the Owens family greenhouse, surrounded by climbing vines, terracotta pots and an abundance of plants. It’s a good reminder that woven furniture works particularly well alongside greenery and other natural materials.

Then there are the smaller details: the woven bedside furniture in The Souvenir, weathered chairs in The Sacrifice, and the way rattan appears again and again as something relaxed, slightly nostalgic and very lived-in.

The screen lesson? Use it for texture, mix it with contrasting materials and don’t be afraid of pattern, colour or pieces that show a little age.

Swipe through for some of our favourite wicker and rattan moments on screen.

🔎 Find the furniture, lighting and décor you spot in film and TV at Film and Furniture.
🔗 Link in bio.

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Pedro Almodóvar is back, and so are the interiors Pedro Almodóvar is back, and so are the interiors we love to linger over.

Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad), now in UK cinemas, moves between two interconnected stories about filmmaking, grief, friendship and the blurred boundary between lived experience and fiction. Leonardo Sbaraglia plays Raúl, a writer-director struggling to write, while Bárbara Lennie’s Elsa becomes part of the story he is constructing.

Raúl’s Madrid home is filmed in the 1962 house and studio designed by Spanish modernist architect Francisco de Asís Cabrero. Warm timber, red structural details, huge areas of glass and an almost absurdly good collection of furniture, books, lighting and art.

The bright red open shelving seen behind Raúl’s desk is packed with books on cinema, photography, art and culture. Beyond it, glass opens the room to the landscape outside. It makes an unusually convincing filmmaker’s workspace: cultured and carefully composed, but still cluttered enough with drawings, pens, papers and objects to feel occupied.

There’s plenty for design spotters, including Carlo Scarpa’s Cornaro sofa, Gio Ponti’s Superleggera seating, Alvar Aalto’s Angel Wing floor lamp and lighting by Antoni Arola, alongside pieces by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand and Jaime Hayon.

Patricia’s apartment is where Almodóvar turns the colour dial right up. Green, red, orange, pink and mint jostle happily together, including the wonderfully voluptuous green Bubble sofa by Sacha Lakic for Roche Bobois. Elsa and Patricia sit on it listening to Chavela Vargas sing Amarga Navidad, the song from which the film takes its title.

Raúl is surrounded by timber, books and serious modernist design, Patricia in a softer, brighter world of curved upholstery and confectionery colour. Both feel unmistakably Almodóvar, yet very specifically inhabited by their characters.

🔎 Find the furniture, lighting and décor you spot on screen at Film and Furniture. 🔗 Link in bio.

Images: © El Deseo / Iglesias Más
What will you see for National Cinema Weekend? 🎬🍿 What will you see for National Cinema Weekend? 🎬🍿

On Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September, more than 500 cinemas across the UK are taking part in National Cinema Weekend, with tickets at £4 at participating cinemas.

Which gives us an excellent excuse to spend rather more time than usual in the dark.

Will it be one of the big new releases?

🕷 Spider-Man: Brand New Day

⚔️ Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

🤠 Toy Story 5

🌙 One Night Only

🏠 The Invite, which gets our vote for some particularly good interiors to inspect while the dinner party steadily unravels.

Or perhaps something a little more off-piste?

🎄 Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas

🎹 Tuner

🏚 Savage House

🔪 Tony

🏕 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

And there are some very tempting returns to the big screen too:

🖖 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

👗 Mannequin

🚕 Taxi Driver

🚽 Trainspotting

🚗 The Fast and the Furious, back for its 25th anniversary

🤖 The Terminator and  Terminator 2: Judgment Day celebrating its 35th anniversary

And, for younger filmgoers, there’s even Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out.

Plus La La Land, which frankly sounds like a very good excuse to see those saturated colours, Los Angeles locations and musical set-pieces on a cinema screen again.

Programmes vary across the country, so check what your local participating cinema is showing.

What are you going to see, and who are you taking?

🎬 National Cinema Weekend
📅 5–6 September 2026
🎟 £4 tickets at participating cinemas

@cinemaweekender #filmandfurniture
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