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Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is already gatherin

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is already gathering some formidable reviews, and judging by the trailer, there is plenty here for those of us who spend as much time looking at the rooms as the people in them.

Set in 1949, the film follows Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, played by Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, as they travel in a black Buick through a shattered Germany, from American-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.

Pawlikowski reunites with cinematographer Łukasz Żal and production designers Katarzyna Sobańska and Marcel Sławiński, and the result looks extraordinary. The severe black-and-white photography gives every space a heightened graphic quality, from pared-back domestic rooms and shadowy hotel interiors to monumental civic halls, theatres and post-war public spaces.

Much of the Germany we see on screen was actually found in Poland. The production travelled extensively in search of surviving architecture that could convincingly stand in for 1949, with locations then substantially dressed and adapted by the art department. Only a small number of scenes were filmed in Germany itself, including at the original Goethe houses in Weimar.

That attention to place is evident in these frames. There are heavy timber doors, marble-clad hotel interiors, austere staircases, Deco-influenced lighting and rooms where the furniture seems to sit at the precise intersection of bourgeois comfort and post-war unease. Even the grander spaces feel strangely exposed.

The Thomas Mann house in Los Angeles also required careful reconstruction, with the design team researching original plans, photographs and film footage, and sourcing furniture and props from Germany.

Following its Cannes premiere, where Pawlikowski won Best Director ex aequo, Fatherland arrives in UK and Irish cinemas on 23 October.

Very much one for the Film and Furniture watchlist.

#Fatherland #PawelPawlikowski #SandraHuller #ProductionDesign #FilmInteriors #FilmingLocations #SetDesign #FilmAndFurniture #CinemaDesign #LukaszZal

The Gentlemen is back, and one of our favourite ou

The Gentlemen is back, and one of our favourite outdoor cooking and entertaining set-ups has returned with it.

One of the pleasures of The Gentlemen is the way so much business gets done around food, drink and beautifully judged settings. Season 2 gives us another perfect example.

Beside the lake at the Hormiman's Halstead Manor, during a post-shooting-party gathering, the WildTable BBQ grill table and WildKitchen return as part of the estate’s outdoor entertaining set-up.

We’ve followed this piece since the original fire-table prototype appeared in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen film. What has always appealed to us is how naturally it fits the series. Everyone stays gathered around the fire, the cooking happens in the middle of the action, and nobody disappears off while the interesting conversations are taking place.

The WildTable is now available in four sizes, seating four, six, eight or twelve people, while the larger WildKitchen adds the retractable tent, seating and storage to create a complete outdoor room.

In a series where shooting parties and country-house hospitality can all become part of the negotiation, the whole set-up feels completely at home.

👀 Explore the locations, interiors and furniture of The Gentlemen Season 2 in our latest feature 🔗 link in @filmandfurniture bio.

🔥 Discover the WildTable and WildKitchen 🔗 links in @filmandfurniture bio.

#FilmAndFurniture #TheGentlemen #TheGentlemenNetflix #WildTable #WildKitchen #OutdoorKitchen #OutdoorCooking #OutdoorLiving #ProductionDesign #SetDecoration #Netflix

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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