Film and Furniture

A discussion with Patternity on the power of pattern and an investigation into the carpet in The Shining

The Bridge featured the villain living in Villa M2 which is designed by Jonas Lindvall, a Swedish architect and furniture designer, so the whole set was full of his designs. More on furniture in films and Scandinavian design on the website...

Poul Henningsen Artichoke glass pendant lamp for Louis Poulsen in Borgen (as featured in our interview with Skandium on furniture in films and Scandinavian design)

Cameron Diaz sits in a white Eames chair in The Holiday (more in our interview with Skandium on furniture in films and Scandinavian design on the website)

Cylinda Line jug with ice lip by Stelton in Star Trek. More in our interview with Skandium on furniture in films and Scandinavian design over on the website

Daniel Craig sits on a Barcelona Chair (designed by Mies Van de Rohe) in Casino Royale (from our feature 'From Iron Man to Mad Men: we discuss furniture in films and Scandinavian design with Skandium')

Lighting, homeware and furniture in films and a discussion on Scandinavian design with Skandium co-founder Magnus Englund

The F&F lowdown on the reel to reel tape deck in Pulp Fiction

I couldn’t help but lose the plot (literally) and find myself staring at the poster on Peggy’s office wall in series 6 of Madmen – a captivating design for a film festival at New York’s Lincoln Centre. The handwriting looks a little like the late, great Alan Fletcher but in fact further research would confirm it is a Saul Bass – produced for the 2nd New York Film Festival (1964). Saul Bass created some of the most iconic graphic design of our time, notably the titles and posters for The Man…

The glass house from the cult 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has been sold for $1.06m (£632,000). The Rose House in Illinois, near Chicago was designed by architect, museum curator and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) teacher A. James Speyer for textile designers Ben and Frances Rose. The house is in the style of modernist architect Mies van der Rohe who was Speyer’s professor at IIT. The house was used for the famous scene where Bueller’s best friend Cameron Frye trashes his…

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 DX Freight exhibition, designed by Jan Kath for Front London would bring a cosmic touch to your front room. Inspired by images of space from the Hubble telescope, the bespoke rug is hand-knotted using silk and wool. The impression of gas clouds, asteroid…

Many great movies have captured the allure of fun fairs: Brighton Rock, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Big, Despicable Me and not forgetting Grease.

Here’s a short report on the BBC News website on the ‘History for Hire’ warehouse in LA which has rented out vintage props to movie-makers for films as diverse as The Artist and Pirates of the Caribbean. See the report here >

The Wassily lounge chair designed by Marcel Breuer (currently produced by Knoll) crops up in Nine 1/2 Weeks and X-Men: First Class. While an apprentice at the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer conceived this first tubular chair, which he based on the frame of a bicycle. The construction of leather strips suspended on steel tubes was the first chair of its kind, becoming immediately a symbol of modernism. Later named for the artist Wassily Kandinsky. Two chairs were spotted today in the Alleyways…

Guest Feature: Justin Pratt, Manager KnollStudio UK and InternationalAs Mies once said “it is almost easier to build a skyscraper than a chair”. There are a few, just a small handful of great furniture designs and for the most part they share a sense of transcending time, but then there is an even more select group – the special ones: The Grace Kelly’s, the Marilyn Monroe’s, the Bridget Bardot’s of the furniture world – the really beautiful ones, the ones that just exude pure unadulterated…