How Production Designer Bob Shaw Layered on The Wealth of ‘The Gilded Age’
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variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAn aura of economic growth and wealth permeates the new drama “The Gilded Age,” premiering Jan.
24 on HBO. Christine Baranski is Agnes van Rhijn, a socialite living in early-1880s New York City with her sister, Ada Brook, played by Cynthia Nixon.
The sisters represent the old money of New York’s aristocracy as it was beginning to be challenged by new people and modern ideas.While production designer Bob Shaw needed to reflect the opulence of their home, he also wanted to give it a “lived-in” feeling.
That meant hanging picture frames one on top of another and using pattern on pattern — on the wallpaper, the curtains and the chairs.
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