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WandaVision Interview: Set Decorator Kathryn Orlando on Capturing the ’50s
28.11.2023 - 19:39 / comingsoon.net / Iron Man
ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with set decorator Kathryn Orlando to celebrate the 4K release of the first Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe series. Orlando spoke about the process of designing sets from different eras and her work on the original Iron Man movie. WandaVision is now available to purchase on 4K UHD and Blu-ray SteelBook.
“Living idealized suburban lives, super-powered beings Wanda and Vision begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems,” reads the series‘ synopsis.
Well, for the set decoration department, the challenge, obviously, was to get the right furniture and the right goods into Atlanta, where we were filming most of it. We shut all the stage work — the interiors — in Atlanta, so we had to bring furniture and everything from all over the country. In that regard, I would say within that, maybe the vintage appliances were some of the hardest things to find. When you think about appliances, they hardly ever move, and if they do, they get dented. So we had to bring these vintage, perfectly pristine vintage appliances in from all over the country. I remember the ’60s range we brought from Chicago, and it had a big dent. We ran out of time on that one. We had to find something else, so it really was not easy.
But all the furnishings came from somewhere else, or we made it, like the sofa in the first set — the ’50s set. I had made the original sofa, but then the other pieces I’ve found everywhere and brought them in and covered things in vintage fabrics. The drapery was made out of authentic vintage fabrics, so I think that really helped. We were really careful to make sure that the design and the styles of furniture within the set were correct.
It definitely did. We ended up using the grayscale mode in the iPhone, and we could look at all the fabrics in black and white and in color. We were just really careful to make sure that when we did see the Dick Van Dyke set at the end in Technicolor, it would look really cool. So we knew it looked good in black and white, but it had to also look good in color.
Of course, we wouldn’t have had time to redo the furniture for that, so we did spend a lot of extra time making sure of that. Mark Worthington, his team, and my team got together with the paint and the wallpaper and everything, and it all just came together. But it was quite an effort, I have to say.
Thank you. Well, first of all, my take on it was that this was Wanda’s memory of what these sets were. So they’re once removed from reality, so they wouldn’t be verbatim copies. I wanted it to feel more just in the spirit of the set — not exactly like this, but as I say that, I think probably the ’50s set was the most verbatim. Some of those things were completely spot
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