lucky number slevin: wallpaper?
d*s reader sent in these photos from lucky number slevin and wanted to know who designed the vintage-y wallpaper in the back. i'm totally stumped so i thought i'd open it up to you guys. can anyone solve the mystery of the wallpaper behind josh hotnett?
[ps: project runway rerun? boo!]
Labels: windows and walls
posted by design*sponge @ 21.9.06
18 Comments:
is that two different colorways?
yea boo rerun. i guess their shows are this week at the tents!
lol. i love it, kiwi.
my old nyu roommate grew up with him and had the same agent in edina. she said he's super nice.
cute and nice. win win.
d*s ;)
Booo! Why a Runway re-run?
I'm so with you D*s. I saw the movie, and I kept telling her "man, I just can't get over that wall paper; who DOES this?" Her response was "Yeah, I know; Lucy Liu in Red? I mean really..." I don't understand her. I can't wait to tell her that I'm on the cutting edge. She'll probably hand me a band-aid.
I don't know who designed that particular wallpaper but I have come across an ebay seller that has a huge supply of some fantastic vintage papers.This one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=016&item=260016811130&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 is very similar.Hope this helps.
I had the same thought when I saw "Lucky Number Slevin." The production designer was François Séguin, so any curious party might have luck by googling him.
Looks very like an E W Moore print see http://www.ewmoore.com/book_four.htm
I have been wondering about that wallpaper ever since I saw the film too!
Yeah I thought the same thing when I saw the movie. I dont think i ever found those patterns but I saw the one from the hallway somewhere. Anyway, check www.wallpaperfromthe70s.com, www.flavorpaper.com, www.twenty2.net, and www.timorousbeasties.co.uk for some cool papers.
if you're anywhere near LA, try Astek Wallcoverings. They have just about every single style, era, color, texture and theme you could possibly imagine in wallpaper. www.astekwallcovering.com
Funny, we had someone email Flavor Paper asking the same question and I haven't had time to rent the movie to see the paper, so thanks for the post!
I wish I had known Lucy Liu was in it because I sat across from her at Bond Street in Miami a week ago and could have asked.
I'm at 100% Design in London now, so if I see anything similar I will inquire and pass along the info.
ive been looking for that zulu-ish wallpaper from the royal tenenbaums movie...any ideas?
After seeing this movie last week I had 2 thoughts:
1) Most stylish movie I've seen in awhile, mostly due to the incredible use of the wallpaper, I thought it really added to the quirkiness of the film.
2) Josh Hartnett is the new Brad Pitt. There, I've said it. 10 years ago, this totally would have been a Brad Pitt role.
House is right - Aztek wallcoverings makes wallcovering for films and has a lot of similar patterns, but now they are available online and to the trade...
http://www.astekwallcovering.com/
I was actually quite impressed by one that stood out to me so I tried my best to memorize the pattern to recreate it ... it was the wallpaper in the hotel, i believe.
http://www.andrewknapp.com/temp/lns.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/27/57038161_0d8560947e_m.jpg
in the DVD commentary wes anderson says it's based on a 'place in NYC', and i had visited it with my cousins a few years before i saw the movie. it is indeed the same wallpaper!
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/gino/index.html
House & anon. are right about Astek (they did Lemony Snicket, among other movies, and will create/ custom-color almost any pattern upon request), but I talked to them and they didn't create papers for this movie. They did suggest it might have come from SecondHand Rose and was an authentic vintage roll.
I saw the movie some days ago... it is just like reading "Elle Decor". I missed the story because I was just looking at the interior design. Who did it?
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