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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido
Captivating movie set but... it doesn't look Laurel Canyon at all (that's where Geiger's house is fictionally located) ! It looks european (England, Switzerland...).
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LOL, our
reality is full of fanciful architectural nonsense too, so a half-timbered English cottage sits next to a bougainvillea-draped hacienda, cheek-by-jowl with a Moorish or Tyrolean fantasy. So why shouldn't a small, stone, Irish crofter's cottage (with a somewhat incongruous and flimsy Georgian-style colonnade) open to a mysterious and exotic Asian interior? My own neighborhood was legally restricted to "English or Mediterranean" styles (those, of course, weren't the only restrictions). The "rain"-drenched "Big Sleep" set looked wonderfully familiar to me and delightfully artificial at the same time.
warner bros
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I think Tony Duquette was responsible for the contact-high-inducing figures at the Mocambo
e-r. In
Martin Pal's large color photo, the draperies, colors, stripes and the outstanding "fringe" hanging from the ceiling (it looks like little lamps, maybe it
was little lamps) are all classic Haines.
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
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Notice the ringmaster is a wolf (or a crocodile?). All the more reason for the little lambs to stay aloft. The tableau is mirror-backed. The lambs do not have more legs than normal, the effect is caused by reflections.
Tony Duquette had a nice sense of play, but I think his creations had to be carefully lit so as not to appear "tacky". Some of Duquette's work seems closer to temporary window displays or stage sets, maybe less well-suited to a permanent installation, in contrast to the Wisecracker's smoothly finished work.