Mid century Archives - Film and Furniture https://filmandfurniture.com/tag/mid-century/ For design geeks, film nerds and furniture fans Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:34:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Bardo – designing a world that spans dreams and reality (with exclusive interview and previously unseen images) https://filmandfurniture.com/2022/12/design-of-bardo-a-world-that-spans-dreams-and-reality-with-exclusive-interview-and-previously-unseen-images/ https://filmandfurniture.com/2022/12/design-of-bardo-a-world-that-spans-dreams-and-reality-with-exclusive-interview-and-previously-unseen-images/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:34:55 +0000 https://filmandfurniture.com/?p=20898 Spending just shy of 3 hours in a cinema on a Saturday afternoon watching Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths was one of the most pleasurable afternoons I’ve spent in a long time. The film is an epic, visually stunning, surreal trip, and if you’re prepared to surrender yourself, a magical treat for the senses. I was compelled to take a deep dive into the design of Bardo and was delighted to talk exclusively with the Oscar winning production designer Eugenio Caballero about creating a world that spans countries, time periods, dreams and reality. Bardo, the story of … Continued

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]]> https://filmandfurniture.com/2022/12/design-of-bardo-a-world-that-spans-dreams-and-reality-with-exclusive-interview-and-previously-unseen-images/feed/ 4 Mid century Modern in the movies: Competition winner! (and don’t miss Modern Shows on 22 Nov) https://filmandfurniture.com/2015/11/mid-century-modern-in-the-movies-competition-win/ https://filmandfurniture.com/2015/11/mid-century-modern-in-the-movies-competition-win/#respond Sun, 15 Nov 2015 18:08:34 +0000 http://www.filmandfurniture.com/?p=3734 Congrats to Mariam Cherian who wins the competition in our feature “Mid century Modern in the movies” to spot a Midcentury Modern piece of furniture in a movie. Mariam identified a Cherner chair in Toy Story 2 and as she rightly points out: “It appears in the creepy collector’s flat! He loves all things mid-century including Woody but likes to keep them as new and doesn’t like anything touched! I guess it’s fine loving mid century stuff but these items were made to be used!” Two tickets to the forthcoming Modern Shows in Dulwich, South London are winging their way … Continued

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]]> https://filmandfurniture.com/2015/11/mid-century-modern-in-the-movies-competition-win/feed/ 0 Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange : Brutalism in exteriors, interiors and a quilt. https://filmandfurniture.com/2015/06/kubricks-clockwork-orange-brutalism-exteriors-interiors-quilt/ https://filmandfurniture.com/2015/06/kubricks-clockwork-orange-brutalism-exteriors-interiors-quilt/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:00:10 +0000 http://www.filmandfurniture.com/?p=2338 Guest Feature by Christian Anderson-Ramshall, Head of Digital Production for Virgin.com. (Details on where to find specific pieces from A Clockwork Orange are featured below this article). Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian A Clockwork Orange (1971) depicts a future where the disenfranchised youth run wildly amuck, blood-lust fuelled by a popular cocktail known as Moloko whilst sprouting profanities in a bastardised concoction of English and Russian. One night whilst partaking in a bit of the old ‘ultra-violence’ high on Moloko, Alex and his ‘droogs’ tear into their neighborhood; beating, raping and finally murdering an unsuspecting cat-fancier. The cat woman’s walls drip with … Continued

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]]> https://filmandfurniture.com/2015/06/kubricks-clockwork-orange-brutalism-exteriors-interiors-quilt/feed/ 15 Iconic whiskey glasses: Mad Men tumblers have the silver screen embedded in their silver rims. https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/10/mad-men-tumblers/ https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/10/mad-men-tumblers/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:18:59 +0000 http://www.filmandfurniture.com/?p=970 By popular request I hereby share the ‘F&F low down’ on those desirable silver-rimmed Mad Men tumblers you frequently see Don Draper et al drinking from in the liquor-fuelled retro TV epic: They are authentic Dorothy Thorpe designs from the 1960s and these whiskey glasses are befitting of their name Roly Poly – if you place them on their side, they roll back to an upright position. Essential barware for the discerning whiskey enthusiast me thinks. But it’s not just Mad Men that connects these sophisticated glasses to the big screen… What’s the story? Of Californian origin, Dorothy Thorpe was … Continued

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]]> https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/10/mad-men-tumblers/feed/ 5 The Incredibles – Mid Century Modernism exemplified https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/08/the-incredibles-mid-century-modernism/ https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/08/the-incredibles-mid-century-modernism/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:44:12 +0000 http://www.filmandfurniture.com/?p=556 The Incredibles (2004) an action-packed story of a family of superheroes living an incognito suburban existence, may be animation but the attention to detail in the sets and production design is outstanding, even by Pixar’s high standards. The story also takes us on a tour of urban architecture, furniture and decor featuring intelligent mutations of some classic mid-century modernist pieces. “I saw the world of ‘The Incredibles’ as looking like what we thought the future would turn out like in the 1960s,” says director Brad Bird. Syndromes lair has all the hallmarks of a pad belonging to Bond ‘s Blofeld, … Continued

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]]> https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/08/the-incredibles-mid-century-modernism/feed/ 7 MidCentury Show East – Sunday 11 May 2014 https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/04/midcentury-show-east/ Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:26:06 +0000 http://mini.local/mysite/?p=118 Head on over to the MidCentury Show East on 11th May at Erno Goldfinger‘s Haggerston School, London E2 to find an abundance of vintage furniture and decor from some the best dealers in the UK. You’re sure to find something like an original Florence Knoll as featured in Pushing Daisies or MadMen, or maybe an Eames Aluminium chair or Womb chair by Eero Saarinen – both featured in Down with Love. The venue of the newer East version of the show was designed by Goldfinger, himself a furniture designer and architect of Willow Road, Hampstead and Trellick Tower fame. Even if … Continued

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