“Greenwich Village is such a central character and integral to everything happening at the time,” Audouy says. Photo: Macall Polay The Ritz Theater in Jersey City, meanwhile, was a two-for-one. “We had two sets of curtains and two sets of flooring and two sets of dressings in...
Through the years, midcentury-modern design has been used onscreen to a variety of ends. In the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, for example, the events in the story actually take place during the mid 20th century. The high-flying spirit of the time is...
The Nosferatu press tour is keen on branding this film as a gothic romance, too. I think the narrative leans more into the former—considering the stalking, the haunting—but the romance aspect shines through in the movie’s visuals, which will appeal to a particular melancholic sect...
Derived from European modernist origins, Brutalist architecture developed in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, as the region, like Toth, recovered from the trauma of World War II. His unadorned masterpiece, like many such Brutalist structures, is defined by the use of exposed concrete and...
“I think that the duty of a good director, and I hope that I am one, is to launch ideas and then wait for other ideas to come back to you,” explains Luca Guadagnino, the director of Challengers, Call Me By Your Name, and most...
“Vaulted concrete construction allowed Roman engineers to build taller buildings than they had before,” explains Ekins. “The Colosseum, with its massive height—approximately that of a modern 15-story apartment building—and prominent use of vaults, demonstrates how far vaulted concrete construction had developed by the time it...
Nearly five hours west of the national park of the same name sits the Yellowstone ranch. In real life, the working cattle ranch in Montana is known as the Chief Joseph Ranch, and it was featured in the pages of AD back in 1994. On...
It was the first crisp October morning. I was having coffee with a friend, and she asked me, “Have you had your annual Practical Magic viewing yet?” Every autumn, I wait until the perfect night to make a batch of hearty stew, light every candle...
The white house that Noah restored for Allie is located at Martins Point Plantation in Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina—a private, 900-acre waterfront community of 18 homes that was established in 1989. Prior to that, the area was home to a plantation, presumably with enslaved people,...
In season four of Gilmore Girls, Lorelai and Sookie leave the Independence to open the Dragonfly Inn, a space that is more closely aesthetically aligned with the Mayflower Inn of today. Kamerman, who designed the Dragonfly behind the scenes, aimed to give it a layered...