Rory Mullen designs skeleton wedding chapel for Simone Rocha's Spring Summer 2024 show
For Simone Rocha's Spring Summer 2024 catwalk presentation, Irish artist Rory Mullen created the skeleton of a white wedding chapel adorned with tin angels. More
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Live music shows are all starting to look "kind of the same" says The 1975's set designer
Relying on social media algorithms for visual inspiration has led to stage designs becoming increasingly repetitive according to Tobias Rylander, the designer behind The 1975's viral set depicting a house. More
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Es Devlin's The Crucible set features cyclical rain installation to symbolise "chaos"
A geometric installation that pours with rain features in the set design for The Crucible, created by Es Devlin to enhance the on-stage storytelling of playwright Arthur Miller's drama about the Salem witch trials. More
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"We built the entire town and landscape" says Asteroid City production designer
The set for Wes Anderson's latest film Asteroid City was designed and built as a functioning town complete with underground power and sewers, production designer Adam Stockhausen tells Dezeen in this interview. More
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Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer design "absurd" set for Barbie film
Waterless swimming pools, fridges with 2D food and hand-painted sunsets feature in the set of the Barbie film, production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer tell Dezeen in this interview. More
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Architecture and design highlights from Glastonbury 2023 captured in Dezeen video
This exclusive video shot by Dezeen features some of the best installations featured at this year's Glastonbury festival, including outlandish stages and a mushroom mycelium pavilion. More
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Glastonbury's mushroom mycelium pavilion explores sustainable stage design
Festival set designer Simon Carroll has created the spiralling Hayes Pavilion from salvaged timber and mycelium at Glastonbury festival to challenge the industry's over-reliance on polystyrene foam. More
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Black Mirror's latest season a "mini film festival" says production designer Udo Kramer
Designer Udo Kramer aimed to give the sets for the sixth season of Netflix series Black Mirror, which include a 1960s spaceship, a "cinematic feel," he tells Dezeen in this interview. More
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"The world ran out of pink" due to Barbie movie production
The sets of Greta Gerwig's upcoming Barbie movie required such vast amounts of pink paint, they swallowed up one company's entire global supply, according to production designer Sarah Greenwood. More
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Primary school children design and build performance space in London theatre
Primary school children in London have created temporary performance structures as part of the Let's Build community project, organised by architecture educator Matt+Fiona to engage the local community. More
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Park Hill estate reimagined as set for musical about Sheffield
A model of Park Hill estate created by stage designer Ben Stones forms the set for Standing at the Sky's Edge, a musical about modern Britain told through stories of life in Sheffield. More
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Eight statement show spaces from Paris Fashion Week
Clinical, stripped-back show spaces made appearances at Miu Miu and Courrèges, while Off-White and Dior opted for more extravagant sets for their Autumn Winter 2023 collections at Paris Fashion Week. More
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Seven key catwalks from Milan Fashion Week
Fashion brands including Diesel, Gucci and Blumarine staged their Autumn Winter 2023 collections at Milan Fashion Week on catwalks piled with 200,000 condoms and on a medieval battlefield. More
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John Paino designs The Last of Us as a world where "civilisation is dead"
Production designer John Paino referenced tenement apartments, slums and Gazan camps when creating the set design for dystopian TV show The Last of Us, which also nods to the "fluorescent" colours of fungi. More
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Eight-metre-high clothing towers rise above Marine Serre's Autumn Winter 2023 runway
French creative studio Matière Noire used 1.3 tonnes of vintage clothing, compressed into three rectangular towers, to decorate the runway of Marine Serre's Autumn Winter 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week. More
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Pierre Yovanovitch creates set with moving elements for Verdi's Rigoletto at Basel Opera
French interior designer Pierre Yovanovitch has created the set for Theatre Basel's production of Verdi's Rigoletto in Switzerland, which features a curvilinear staircase that crosses the full width of the stage. More
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Moving ceiling and art-deco chandeliers form setting for Prada menswear show
AMO, the research and creative studio of OMA, added a retractable ceiling to the Fondazione Prada that moved to reveal a series of art deco chandeliers for Prada's Autumn Winter 2023 menswear show. More
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Five afrofuturist chairs by Jomo Tariku featured in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ethiopian-American designer Jomo Tariku has five afrofuturist chairs in the latest Black Panther film. Here he explains the thinking behind each piece. More
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Jim Clay's set design aims to create the right "psychological climate" for House of the Dragon
Production designer Jim Clay created a dragon skull that "could appear in the Natural History Museum" for the set design of TV series House of the Dragon, which also draws on the Wolf Hall trilogy to give the interiors a "Machiavellian feel". More
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Santiago Sierra creates mud runway for Balenciaga during Paris Fashion Week
Spanish artist Santiago Sierra carved a runway through mounds of mud from a peat bog for Balenciaga's Spring Summer 2023 show in Paris. More
