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Director: Joseph Sargent

Art Directors: Alexander Golitzen, John J. Lloyd

Set Decorators: Ruby Levitt, John McCarthy

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🎨 Artist’s houses are no stranger to the screen.

🎨 Artist’s houses are no stranger to the screen.

Julie Taymor’s Frida used Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s genuine San Ángel studio-houses among its Mexican locations. Casa Azul was reconstructed at Estudios Churubusco, where production designer Felipe Fernández del Paso and set decorator Hania Robledo shaped its rooms around the film’s rich visual language.

Catalan sculptor Xavier Corberó’s extraordinary concrete home became the studio of fictional painter Juan Antonio in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Its monumental arches, courtyards and double-height rooms establish his artistic identity.

Salvador Dalí’s Portlligat home appears in The Secret Life of Portlligat and Little Ashes. Quentin Dupieux’s Daaaaaalí! used a different Costa Brava house to evoke Dalí’s world, complete with a striped UP chair by Gaetano Pesce.

Our new article explores these houses and many more, inspired by @harriet_thorpe's new book Artists’ Modernist Houses.

🎉 WIN THE BOOK! courtesy of @batsfordbooks.

HOW TO ENTER
🔗 Head to the Giveaways link in our bio and enter your details by 12 noon GMT on Sunday 22 November 2026.

The competition is open to Film and Furniture newsletter subscribers with UK or US delivery addresses.

You’ll also find more about the book and our accompanying feature on artists’ houses on screen over on the website (link also in bio)

Good luck!

#FridaKahlo #DiegoRivera #XavierCorbero #SalvadorDali #VickyCristinaBarcelona #Daaaaaali #ArtistsModernistHouses #FilmLocations #ProductionDesign #filmandfurniture

📚 WIN one of three copies of Artists’ Modernist Ho

📚 WIN one of three copies of Artists’ Modernist Houses by Harriet Thorpe, courtesy of @batsfordbooks.

This beautifully illustrated new book visits 50 Modernist homes and studios created, commissioned or transformed by artists around the world.

Swipe to explore Frida Kahlo’s blue studio-house in San Ángel, designed by Juan O’Gorman, High Sunderland, the Scottish home designed by Peter Womersley for textile designer Bernat Klein; ; and the Reykjavík home and studio of Icelandic sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson.

These houses also have screen lives. Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s connected studios appear in Frida, High Sunderland is at the centre of the 16mm film On Weaving, and Ólafsson’s home features in the documentary Torn.

The book inspired our new Film and Furniture feature exploring real artists’ houses and fictional creative spaces across film and TV.

🎉 WIN THE BOOK!

HOW TO ENTER
Head to the Giveaways 🔗 link in @filmandfurniture bio and enter your details by 12 noon GMT on Sunday 22 November 2026.

Find more details on the book, the competition and our accompanying feature on artists’ houses on screen over on the website (Link also in @filmandfurniture bio)

Good luck!

#ArtistsModernistHouses #BookGiveaway #ArtistsHomes #BernatKlein #FridaKahlo #SigurjonOlafsson #ModernistArchitecture #FilmInteriors #FilmAndFurniture

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) feels unnervin

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) feels unnervingly prophetic in the age of AI.

Hand over decision-making to a supercomputer, congratulate yourselves on your ingenuity, then discover it has ideas of its own…

We saw Joseph Sargent’s science-fiction thriller at @filmchelt earlier this week as part of its AI strand, and it's remarkable how relevant this 56-year-old film feels today.

The story centres on Colossus, a supercomputer designed to control America's nuclear defence systems, which develops its own intelligence and decides that humanity can no longer be trusted to govern itself. Sound familiar?

And the design! Those vast computer installations, control rooms, banks of flashing lights and futuristic technology are extraordinary.

Dr Forbin's fabulous living quarters are a rather stylish slice of late-1960s modernism. We spotted the magnificent Arco floor lamp, designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos in 1962, alongside some mighty fine mid-century modern dining chairs. Naturally, we had our eyes on the furniture as well as the impending technological takeover.

Art direction by Alexander Golitzen and John J. Lloyd, with set decoration by John P. McCarthy and Ruby Levitt.

A chilling vision of a future in which machines take control, imagined more than half a century before AI became part of our everyday conversations.

Discover furniture from film at filmandfurniture.com.
🔗 Link in bio.

#ColossusTheForbinProject #FilmChelt #FilmAndFurniture #SciFiCinema #ProductionDesign #SetDesign #FilmInteriors #ArtificialIntelligence #MidCenturyModern #ArcoLamp

From the provocative Rocking Machine to the extrao

From the provocative Rocking Machine to the extraordinary Dancing Christs, Dutch artist Herman Makkink created two of the most memorable sculptures in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971). And now, rare editions of both are going under the hammer.

The unmistakably phallic Rocking Machine takes centre stage in the Cat Lady’s house, where it becomes a rather deadly weapon in the hands of Alex (Malcolm McDowell).

Meanwhile, Makkink’s Christ Unlimited, better known as the Dancing Christs, appears in Alex’s bedroom. The irreverent sculpture depicts four crucified Christs arranged in a chorus-line formation, a suitably provocative addition to the film’s extraordinary interiors.

Both works feature in @lotsroadauctions' The Director’s Cut: Film, Music & Hollywood Icons sale on 19 November.

🔸 Rocking Machine (The New Generation): Artist’s Proof #1, contributed by the Herman Makkink Estate. This contemporary, smaller-scale edition of the celebrated sculpture carries an estimate of £2,500–£5,000.

🔸 Christ Unlimited (Dancing Christs): A pair of painted cast-resin sculptures from the 2012 Medicom Toys edition, offered as the last remaining set of that edition, still in their original packaging. Estimate £1,800–£2,500.

@FilmandFurniture has worked directly with the Herman Makkink Estate for several years, helping collectors acquire authorised editions of these remarkable works, including the larger Rocking Machine White Edition.

Discover more about these extraordinary pieces of film and design history, explore available editions and find links to the auction at FilmAndFurniture.com.

🔗 Link in bio

#HermanMakkink #AClockworkOrange #StanleyKubrick #RockingMachine #ChristUnlimited #DancingChrists #FilmAndFurniture #FilmDesign #LotsRoadAuctions

Just seen Gabbeh at @filmchelt and what a beautifu

Just seen Gabbeh at @filmchelt and what a beautiful, gentle, poetic film.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s 1996 film takes its name from the traditional Persian rug, and the gabbeh becomes the story itself. As an elderly couple spread their rug by a river to wash it, a young woman, Gabbeh, emerges from its woven imagery and begins to tell her story.

The colours, textures and stories of the land and its people are woven into these rugs. A gabbeh is almost like a story on the floor, with landscapes, animals, figures and memories expressed through simple shapes, patterns and colour.

The word gabbeh comes from the Persian gabbāh, meaning raw, natural, uncut or unfinished. Traditionally handwoven by nomadic tribes including the Qashqai, Luri and Bakhtiari of southwestern Iran, the rugs are made from thick hand-spun sheep’s wool. Even their colours come from the landscape, with the wool traditionally dyed using plants and other natural materials gathered from the surrounding environment.

Their designs are often freer and more abstract than formal Persian rugs, with geometric forms and stylised figures appearing across broad fields of colour.

In the film, these woven stories come to life. The landscape, people and animals seem to step straight out of the rug, creating a beautiful connection between the textile and the world from which it comes.

A story of family, love and longing, told through pattern and colour.

The film premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 1996 and went on to win international awards for its direction and artistic achievement. Easy to understand when every frame feels so carefully composed.

FilmChelt continues til Sunday 8 November evening.

#Gabbeh #MohsenMakhmalbaf #FilmChelt #FilmAndFurniture #PersianRug #IranianCinema #FilmDesign #TextileDesign

🎬 HOLLYWOOD HISTORY IN NEON! ⚡ From Stanley Kubri

🎬 HOLLYWOOD HISTORY IN NEON! ⚡

From Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut to Ready Player One, Captain America, Fast & Furious 6 and Judge Dredd, an extraordinary collection of original screen-used movie neon signs is heading to auction in London.

Created by legendary London neon artist Chris Bracey, founder of @godsownjunkyard, these illuminated works helped bring some of cinema's most memorable worlds to life.

💡 Among the highlights:

🌈 Rainbow Fancy Dress, Dogs and Saxophone from Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

⚡ STARK Industries from Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), starring Chris Evans.

🐉 Green Dragon from Fast & Furious 6 (2013), starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson.

💀 Off Your Skulls and 24 Hour Liquor Store from Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018).

🔥 Erotic Art Shop, Striptease and Hollywood USA from Judge Dredd (1995), starring Sylvester Stallone.

The auction also features neon signs associated with Tomb Raider 2, The Flash, The Expendables 4, Gangs of London and The Gentlemen, alongside works connected to television shows including Strictly Come Dancing and First Dates.

And there's another Kubrick connection: sculptures by Herman Makkink, whose extraordinary designs featured in A Clockwork Orange (1971).

These remarkable pieces of film memorabilia and neon art are part of The Director's Cut: Film, Music & Hollywood Icons at @lotsroadauctions, going under the hammer on Thursday 19 November 2026.

From film sets to collectors' homes, the lights are about to change hands! ⚡

🎥 Discover the stories behind the signs and explore auction lots and estimates in our full Film and Furniture feature.

🔗 Read the full story at FilmandFurniture.com. Link in bio.

#ChrisBracey #GodsOwnJunkyard #LotsRoadAuctions #EyesWideShut #StanleyKubrick #ReadyPlayerOne #CaptainAmerica #JudgeDredd #HermanMakkink #NeonArt #MovieProps #FilmAndFurniture

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