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The coronavirus crisis means we're spending more time indoors than ever before, so Dezeen's Natasha Levy has selected 10 films with stand-out interiors that can offer some escape from your own four walls.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014
The snowy mountaintops of a fictitious country in Eastern European is the backdrop for The Grand Budapest Hotel, a comedic drama that sees a concierge employee framed for murder.
Crimson-red carpets, marble columns and ornate brass lighting adorn the hotel's lobby, which was created in the atrium of Görlitzer Warenhaus – a vacant art-nouveau department store in eastern Germany.
To create the films other whimsical, pastel-hued sets, production designer Adam Stockhausen referenced archived imagery of Alpine ski resorts.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is available to watch on Amazon.
Nocturnal Animals, 2016
A concrete-and-glass mansion hidden on a hillside in Malibu, California, is the setting for Nocturnal Animals, a moody thriller directed by fashion designer Tom Ford.
The interior of the home is filled with expensive furnishings and artworks, but feels increasingly menacing after the protagonist receives a disturbing novel manuscript from her estranged husband.
Nocturnal Animals is available to watch on Amazon and Hulu.
American Psycho, 2000
Set in 1980s New York, American Psycho tracks the psychological unravelling and increasing bloodlust of investment banker Patrick Bateman.
Initially Bateman's apartment appears to be an immaculate bachelor pad, complete with bright-white walls, glinting steel appliances and a couple of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chairs – but it soon becomes the setting for his most gruesome acts.
Villa Albergoni, an uninhibited mansion in northern Italy, is the sumptuous setting for Call Me By Your Name – a come-of-age tale that sees romance bloom between teenager Elio Perlman and a 24-year-old grad student.
Interior designer Violante Visconti Di Modrone gave the property a lived-in quality, carefully curating each room to reflect Perlman's cultured family and upbringing. Props include antique maps, paintings and books, as well as glassware and crockery that once belonged to Di Modrone's own parents.
Call Me By Your Name is available to watch on Amazon and Google Play.
The Favourite, 2018
Heavily-tapestried walls and plump four-mattress beds are some of the rich details to feature in the interiors of The Favourite – a black comedy that sees two royal cousins jostle for the attention of Queen Anne.
The film is set during the 18th century, but production designer Fiona Crumble told Dezeen she didn't feel the need to precisely replicate the decor of the period: "We just found our own language for how to represent the story rather than necessarily representing accurate depictions of Queen Anne style."
Garish retro interiors appear throughout Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, which documents the horrific crimes committed by a gang of young men in a dystopic Britain.
Many scenes were shot inside real homes, including a Hertfordshire property called Skybreak that was created by architecture practice Team 4. One of the few built sets was for the film's Korova Milk Bar, a fictitious drinks venue filled with nude fibreglass mannequins.
In horror flick Midsommar, folksy interiors help veil the grisly rituals being secretly carried out by a pagan cult.
One of the film's key spaces – a lofty, barn-like dorm that features an eerily bewitching wall mural – draws upon centuries-old Swedish farmhouses that production designer Henrik Svensson came across during research for the movie.
Director Spike Jonze's sci-fi romance film Her chronicles how a man falls in love with an artificially intelligent virtual assistant.
The lonely protagonist resides in a high-rise minimalist apartment that has unspoilt vistas of a near-future Los Angeles – production designer KK Barrett developed the twinkling skyline by blending the architectural landscape of LA with Shanghai.
Production designer Catherine Martin built 42 bespoke sets for jazz-age tale The Great Gatsby, which follows enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession with socialite Daisy Buchanan.
Gatsby's lavish mansion takes design cues from the palatial early-20th-century houses on New York's Long Island – inside there's a gold-ceilinged ballroom, sweeping staircase and double-height dressing room where the protagonist keeps hundreds of silk shirts.
Crazy Rich Asians sees a New York professor travel to meet her boyfriend's ultra-wealthy family in Singapore.
Most of the filming was actually done in Malaysia, where abandoned mansions and ex-boutique hotels were turned into character's opulent homes. Set designers painted floors to look like they were clad with expensive tiles, upholstered walls in ornate wallpaper and even had a faux stuffed tiger created.
Designed to let people safely gather in nightclubs during the pandemic, the air-tight Micrashell suit would cover the entire upper half of the body – and even include in-built systems that allow the wearer to vape and consume beverages.
Creative studio Production Club told Dezeen that they created the concept in response to "reckless social behaviour".
"Seeing large groups of people ignore social distancing directives in order to go out and party, we felt obligated to address both issues and find a solution that benefited all," it said.
New York-based designer Joe Doucet released visuals for a minimal face shield that could protect users from Covid-19 infection.
The shield would be worn on the face like a pair of sunglasses, offering an alternative to "uncomfortable and awkward" personal protective equipment (PPE).
The architecture world also offered solutions to the current coronavirus crisis. Foster + Partners launched its #architectureforhome initiative, which provides entertaining challenges for children bored during lockdown.
Activities include building a paper skyscraper, learning how to draw trees, and creating their own miniature city.
The practice was able to avoid paying out any money but said the rest of the architectural community should be "extremely cautious" of cybercriminals, particularly as so many people are currently working remotely.
Photography also proved popular this week. Architect Julio Alberto Cedano captured new images of Lafayette Park, a residential development designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1959.
Bossi explained to Dezeen that the project was an exercise in capturing the building's unsual ambience.
"The weight and the scale of its emptiness made me feel calm, protected, isolated, even overwhelmed somehow, but also extremely free at the same time," he said.
Thin ribbons of wood line the green ceilings and white pine wall panels in this Montreal pizza restaurant designed by local studio Ménard Dworkind.
Vesta, located in Montreal's Villeray neighbourhood, takes cues from the decor of New York pizzerias of the 1970s. Its funky colours, bold use of textures and use of vintage objects are intended to recall the "spirit of Italian family restaurants".
"In its own contemporary way the design of Vesta evokes the spirit of Italian family restaurants common in North America during the 1970s," Ménard Dworkind said.
White pine panelling covers half of the walls with the other portion painted a dark green colour that extends across the ceiling of the restaurant. Slender oak bands laid against the surface form a linear, geometric pattern.
An L-shaped bar clad with beige powder-coated steel topped with a white oak counter is situated at the centre of the restaurant.
Oak cabinetry fronted with black steel frames and glass forms an illuminated display case for the wine selection on the panelled wall behind the bar.
Red leather stools around the counter match the banquette seating against the wall. Vintage wood dining chairs provide additional seating around dining tables that are crafted from large Carrara marble tiles and feature an oak border on their edges.
An open kitchen allows patrons to view food preparation. Inside the cooking space there is a large prep counter also cut from white Carrara marble fronted with diamond tiling, and a large pizza oven the studio imported from New York.
Graphic yellow pizza boxes are stacked along the 20-foot (six-metre-long) white rack that extends over the kitchen counter, which was constructed to accommodate Vesta's large number of takeout orders.
A pair of globular light fixtures adorn the wall above each of the seating areas. The tiny lights match the black dot lamp from local workshop Lambert & Fils that extends over the bar counter.
Surrounding the perimeter of the restaurant is an oak shelf lined with vintage cans of tomato sauce in a nod to old, traditional Italian style food and restaurant decor.
Ménard Dworkind was founded by designers David Dworkind and Guillaume Ménard in 2017.
The firm has designed a number of restaurants in Montreal including a wine bar that takes cues from bottle labels and Miss Wong restaurant designed as a mini Chinatown.
Other projects by the collaborative office include a beauty salon featuring hacked pink armchairs and IKEA sinks.
Architect Ludwig Godefroy has designed this fragmented concrete house, which spans an 80-metre-long site in Mérida, Mexico, to draw on Mayan traditions and culture.
The Mexico City architect completed the house in Mérida, the largest city in Yucatán state, which is regarded as the capital of the indigenous Mayan civilisation. The architect sought to reference designs from this ancient community across the project.
"How is it possible to build architecture that reflects and considers the Yucatán identity, to make this house belong to its territory? In other words, how could this house be Mayan?," Godefroy asked.
Working to his advantage was the unusual proportions of the site measuring eight metres wide and roughly the length of three-quarters of a football field.
This space allowed him to explore the concept of a long, fragmented residence that he said references a Sacbe, an ancient Mayan road system used to connect different communities.
"Those straight lines used to connect all together the different elements, temples, plazas, pyramids and cenotes of a Mayan city; sacred ways which could even go from one site to another along a few hundred kilometers," he explained.
Breaking up the residence and interspersing it with outdoor areas also formed a way to naturally ventilate the house.
This followed the Mayan architectural style developed to ease living in the extreme climate of Yucatán, such has high temperatures and a rainy season from June until September.
"This typology is basically based on natural crossed ventilation under high ceiling volumes, all connected together by a series of patios letting the airflow through the entire house, providing this way a natural cooling system," he added.
Construction and materials are locally sourced or reference Mayan culture as well. For example, creamy stone perimeter walls, which have joints covered in the stone splinters, take cues from those in Mayan pyramids and temples sites.
While not traditional, the exposed concrete that forms the main volumes of the house and the floors was produced in Mérida. This is then complemented by locally designed wooden louvres on the windows and the doors.
"The construction is reaching a 90 per cent made on site, with local materials and built exclusively by Yucatec masons and carpenters, a sort of modern reinterpretation of what could mean vernacular architecture," said Godefroy.
He added that the material choices are simple and intended to weather over time.
"Made of massive materials which do not require special treatments or maintenance, accepting ageing and time as part of the architecture process, the house has been conceptualised to end up one day covered by a new coat of materiality: a layer of patina."
The aesthetic is mirrored in simple decor such as wooden furnishings, a stone bathtub and a rough sink. Pops of colour are provided by blue-hued textiles and artwork that nod to the tones of the swimming pool.
Because of the urban location, Godefroy arranged the house to provide the residents with privacy.
He inverted the traditional arrangement of a property, moving the backyard garden to the front to act as a buffer to the street and the kitchen, living room and swimming pool towards the rear.
"Casa Mérida is inverting the classical scheme of the house with its garden, to create a singular habitable garden with its house," said the architect, who describes the result as "a sort of isolated countryside situation in the middle of an urban context".
Godefroy aimed to disconnect Casa Mérida by creating a closed-loop water system, starting by drilling a borehole to source water in the subsoil.
Absorption wells were added to collect rainwater. They are placed under sculptural water collectors that act as features of the house. Lastly, a biodigester treats the house's dirty water to use for the garden.
Energy is also created on-site through solar boilers and photovoltaic panels.
