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Our guide to surviving the festive season No.1

Uncategorized: 11 Dec 2014

Our guide to surviving the festive season No.1

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🎨 Artists’ homes can tell us an awful lot about ho

🎨 Artists’ homes can tell us an awful lot about how their minds work.

In The Big Lebowski, Maude Lebowski occupies a vast industrial studio furnished with modern designs including the LC3 armchair by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand.

Charleston, the East Sussex farmhouse shared by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, became an evolving work of art filled with painted walls, fireplaces, furniture, ceramics and textiles. The BBC drama Life in Squares filmed key later scenes inside the house itself (visit if you get a chance, it’s fantastic!).

The Bauhaus Masters’ Houses in Dessau were experiments in modern living for artists including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. They play themselves in the German film Lotte at the Bauhaus.

Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers places its drama inside the crowded London townhouse of fictional painter Julian Sklar. Newspapers, postcards, paint marks, books and scarred easels evoke decades of creative life, with inspiration drawn from artists including Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Rose Wylie.

Discover more real and fictional artists’ houses in our new feature, inspired by @harriet_thorpe 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!

#filmandfurniture

❤️ RED: Love, Danger + Desire in Film and TV, Part

❤️ RED: Love, Danger + Desire in Film and TV, Part 3

RED carries a whole world full of emotional weight on screen.

It can signal love, lust, danger, violence, glamour, heat, fear or obsession, and sometimes all those things at once.

Wong Kar-wai uses red with extraordinary sensuality. In In the Mood for Love, deep red curtains and corridors intensify the film’s longing, while in 2046, red becomes more nocturnal, tied to desire, memory and relationships already slipping away.

Suspiria bathes its world in it until colour itself feels threatening. Only God Forgives uses neon red to make its interiors feel feverish and hostile, while Ballerina brings red into a world of danger and heightened action.

In The Neon Demon, seduction and menace sit side by side, while Paris, Texas uses red to create intimacy, desire and emotional distance within the same space.

Mean Girls gives us red as vanity and sexual confidence, Oklahoma! pushes it into something surreal and nightmarish, and The Babysitter takes the symbolism somewhere rather more literal with a heart-shaped red bath.

What did we miss?

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Ballerina (2025)
D: Len Wiseman | PD: Philip Ivey | SD: Letizia Santucci

2046 (2004)
D: Wong Kar-wai | PD: William Chang Suk-ping

In the Mood for Love (2000)
D: Wong Kar-wai | PD: William Chang Suk-ping

Mean Girls (2004)
D: Mark Waters | PD: Cary White | SD: Patricia Cuccia

The Neon Demon (2016)
D: Nicolas Winding Refn | PD: Elliott Hostetter | SD: Adam Willis

Suspiria (1977)
D: Dario Argento | PD: Giuseppe Bassan

Only God Forgives (2013)
D: Nicolas Winding Refn | PD: Beth Mickle

Paris, Texas (1984)
D: Wim Wenders | PD: Kate Altman

Oklahoma! (1955)
D: Fred Zinnemann | PD: Oliver Smith | SD: F. Keogh Gleason

The Babysitter (2017)
D: McG | PD: Kristen Vallow | SD: Sandy Hubshman

🎨 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

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