carpet Archives - Film and Furniture

Feature: 17 May 2020

40 years on, pop culture can’t stop referencing the Overlook Hotel carpet

Isolating with your family can take its toll and such was true for Jack, Wendy and Danny Torrance. How appropriate then, that half the...

Feature: 19 Dec 2018

Film and Furniture In the Press: Fabric on The Shining rugs and runners

Fabric magazine epitomizes smart London living – celebrating the people, the place and the lifestyle, so we're very happy to have been featured in the December issue. In their article...

Feature: 01 Jun 2018

Make your home shine… Presenting The Shining officially licensed luxury rugs and runners

In Kubrick’s seminal horror film The Shining (starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall as Jack and Wendy Torrance) the psychic hotel cook Dick Hallorann...

Feature: 24 Nov 2017

Checkmate! The story behind Kubrick’s carpet in The Shining revealed

Updated 30.5.18 Film and Furniture regulars will know one of the original inspirations for this very website was the hexagonal patterned carpet in The Shining's...

Feature: 20 Sep 2015

The Power of Pattern: The carpet in The Shining / a chat with Patternity

I'm fascinated by pattern. As a matter of fact, the inspiration behind Film and Furniture was the famous patterned carpet in the corridor of...

Feature: 03 Jun 2014

Cosmic carpet

I'm a sucker for films about outer space. From Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien, and more recently - Gravity (to mention a but a few). This beautiful "Spacecrafted" rug featured at May Design Series...