Production Designers Stick With Tradition to Build College Professor’s Office
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variety.comValentina I. Valentini Grace Alie is the production designer on Netflix’s “The Chair” (airing Aug. 20), which stars Sandra Oh as the first woman of color to head the English department at fictional Pembroke University.
Alie researched images of Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard for that traditional Ivy League look and found that throughout the eras, the furniture hardly changed at all.“It felt appropriate to put Sandra’s character behind this very traditional, heavy, masculine [desk in a] male-dominated environment.
It is such a fish-out-of-water story in some aspects,” says Alie. “We brought some life into her office with little things to put on her desk that would lighten the mood; she’s under the gaze of all those oil portraits of men that.
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