Designs on Film Events

If you are on the East Coast this week, here are two events that might be of interest:

Tuesday, May 10th
Fairfield Theatre Company
70 Sanford Street
Fairfield, CT
2:00 PM
Lecture and book signing for Designs on Film

Wednesday, May 11th
F. Schumacher and Company
979 Third Avenue
NYC
11:00 AM

I will be joining a panel with Academy, Emmy and Tony award winning production and costume designer Tony Walton, The Good Wife production designer Stephen Hendrickson and set decorator Andrew Baseman to discuss designs on film and television. The panel will be moderated by Linda Sherbert, design editor of Veranda Magazine and a book signing and light lunch will follow. (The photo above is set decorator Hobe Irwin's wallpaper designs for F. Schumacher as seen in 1939's Gone With the Wind).

Hope to see you there!!

Photo Credits: MGM

If These Walls Could Talk: F. Schumacher Goes to the Movies

Easily one of the most recognizable homes of the cinema, Gone with the Wind's Tara needs no introduction. From its imposing white washed brick columns to the period perfect rooms, the O'Hara plantation played a central role in both the novel and film. 

Now you can get your own look of Tara with the F. Schumacher's Hydrangea Drape wallpaper (and forget Scarlett's drapes turned into dress!) Designed by New York interior decorator/set designer (who was also known for his work on Dinner at Eight and Little Women), Schumacher purchased the classic floral and stripe from Erwin's original archives in l986 and it's still available today in their Greenhouse Collection in four colorways of white, blue, willow and fawn.

                       

Schumacher fabrics and wallpapers have also graced the sets for films and television ranging from I Love Lucy (1953) to the Edith Wharton based films Washington Square (1996) and The Age of Innocence (1996). Acclaimed photographer, interior, production and stage and costume designer and style icon (known for his sets of My Fair Lady and Gigi) was a guest designer for the fifth generation company. For those of you who are I Love Lucy fans, their pattern Polka Dot Pony appeared on a child's chair in the Ricardo's Manhattan apartment.         

Michelle Pfeiffer as Countess Olenska in The Age of Innocence

Edwardian Damask in black colorway

For more about F. Schumacher's collections, see their website.


Photo Credits: MGM, F. Schumacher, Columbia Pictures