Pictures I posted to Twitter just now:

[cimorene]

The last bag of birch logs for the wood-burning stove got left on the floor for a couple hours and instantly became Inspector Japp's new favorite place to sit, so now it's been there 2 days and he still isn't tired of it.


Our kitchen wallpaper (Retro by Boråstapeter) showing up in The Queen's Gambit, which we just finished watching.

We'd already seen the good reviews and trailers so no surprise that it was so enjoyable. Very well-done prestige series, not quite on the visual level of Park Chan-Wook, but nearly. I googled and looked around through the related news from imdb as well and saw a lot of mentions of the incredible feat of visual style achieved by this series, which is a period piece covering the 1950s-1960s with a slightly heightened and stylized reality and a variety of amazing settings that let the production designer really splash out. But I didn't see any interviews with him or any mentions of his name in this searching, aside from actress/director Marielle Heller (played protagonist's adoptive mother Alma, and was most recently the director of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) dropping his name: Uli Hanisch, a German production designer most recently responsible for Babylon Berlin and before that for Perfume and Cloud Atlas. His artistic set designs are a deft combination of gritty familiarity and stylized heightened realism. It's genius. And I wish people would talk about and interview production designers more.