6.30.2012

designing dreams: modern architecture in the movies

"Snow Blind"
1924
Art Director: Joseph Urban

"Il Perfido Incanto"
1916
Art Director: Enrico Prampolini

"Le Secret de Rosette Lambert"
1920
Art Director: Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Directors (this set): 
Clause Autant-Lara and Alberto Cavalcanti 

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Director: (this set): Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Director: (this set): Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Director: (this set): Fernand Léger

"Le Vertige"
(Actor Jaque Catelain pictured.)
1926
Art Directors: Robert Mallet-Stevens, 
Lucien Aguettand, André Lurcat
and Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"Le Vertige"
1926
Art Directors: Robert Mallet-Stevens, Lucien Aguettand, 
André Lurcat
and Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"L'Argent"
(Actors Pierre Alcover and Brigitte Helm pictured.)
1928
Art Directors: Lazre Meerson and Andree Barsacq

"Le P'tit Parigot"
1926
Art Directors: Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"Les Nouveaux Messiers"
1928
Art Director: Lazre Meerson

"Angst"
1928
Art Director: Franz Schroedter

"Trouble in Paradise"
1932
Supervisory Art Director: Hans Dreier

"Men Must Fight"
1933
Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons

"The Easiest Way"
1931
Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons

"Male and Female"
1919
 Art Director: Wilfred Buckland

"Gentlemen of the Press"
1929
Art Director: William Saulter

"Rackety Rax"
1932
Art Director: Gordon Wiles

"Broadway"
1929
 Art Director: Charles D. Hall

"Grand Hotel"
1932
Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons;
Unit Art Director: Alexander Toluboff

"The Tunnel"
1935
Art Director: Ernö Metzner

"Things to Come"
 1936
Art Director: Vincent Korda

"The Fountainhead"
1949
Architectural Delineator: Charles Bonestell

"The Fountainhead"
1949
Art Director: Edward Carrere

"The Fountainhead"
1949
Art Director: Edward Carrere

All images from:
"Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies"
by Dandy Don Albrecht
1986