Showing posts with label Interiors I Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interiors I Love. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Set Design: Stranger Than Fiction

I've never seen set design play as big a role in a movie as it did in Stranger Than Fiction.  First, I love that movie, a good balance of funny and touching.  And I love the couple Harold and Ana.  They couldn't be more different, and the style of their homes really portray that.

Harold in his bedroom.  So stream line, so modern and so simple.  It does a great job of extending his character as an IRS agent obsessed with numbers into his living space, deepening his personality.

You can see a few more example of his home in this collage.   I have to say I'm really drawn to the extreme modern, but not flashy, interior of his apartment. 

And his hippie, tax evading girlfriend Ana.  Her home is a collection of mismatch thrift store finds.  Lots of bright colors and eclectic patterns.  It speaks volumes about the kind of person Ana is.

 And the awesome set design didn't stop with the main characters.  Harold stays temporarily with his co worker Dave, who is similar to Harold but has more of a playful side to him than Harold does (at first anyway).  His apartment shows that.  Its also modern and clean, but its more funky and space agey.  Its just genius. 

Of course characters in a movie can be a bit more one dimensional.  It might not be that easy to channel your personality into your interior design, but it does beg the question: What does your interior say about you?  :)

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Room & Board

I just got my new Room & Board catalog in the mail yesterday and here are a few of my favorites:

I am just loving blues and aquas right now.  And mid-century modern?  I've loved it since before it was cool (I watched a lot of I Love Lucy as a kid)

Cylinder lights, yes PLEASE!  And their fabrics are all super yummy, if only I could afford one in each color. . .

The Seville chair was inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona collection.  I have ALWAYS wanted a Barcelona Chair.  It used to be the background on my computer at work, before I was married and had a cute baby.  My students would make fun of me.  Someday. . .

The Sabrina Chair.  In lime. 

This throw.  I need more color in my bedroom and I've been thinking about chartreuse.  And I think I need this throw.

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