Can we have a break for applause for Daniel Walber's The Furniture column. His incredible series has been filled with sharp insights, a keen eye, and rich Hollywood anecdotes. Here's everything he's covered in the first three seasons, all 103 episodes stretching from a musical in 1935 to an erotic thriller from 2018. Please show your love in the comments if you look forward to these each week.
Early Cinema
• Top Hat (1935) Dancing sets
The Forties
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) moons and mountains
• Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Bored at the border
• How Green Was My Valley (1941) Designing dignity
• Ladies in Retirement (1941) Into the marshes with Ida Lupino
• That Hamilton Woman (1941) High ceilings
• Captain of the Clouds (1942) A Canadian air show
• The Magnificent Andersons (1942) Victorian Palace / Manifest Destiny
• My Gal Sal (1942) Nonsense Gay Nineties
• The Shanghai Gesture (1942) Appropriating Chinese design
• Gaslight (1944) Lighting of and in the set
• Black Narcissus (1947) Mad for matte paintings
The Fifties
• David and Bathsheba (1951) A humble palace of moral struggle
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Decorative madness
• My Cousin Rachel (1952) Ghosts of property
• Knights of the Round Table (1953) Reframing King Arthur
• The Night of the Hunter (1955) American expressionism
• Lust for Life (1956) Van Gogh's inspiration
The Sixties
• How the West Was Won (1962) Saloon kitsch
• Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) weird wonders
• Come Blow Your Horn (1963) Comedy by design
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Your house is listening
• A Shot in the Dark (1964) Charmingly ridiculous
• What a Way To Go! (1964) Death by excess
• Fantastic Voyage (1966) Absurd anatomy
• The Oscar (1966) Celebrate the tackiness!
• Camelot! (1967) A silly and furry place
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and Doctor Dolittle (1967) matte paintings
• Is Paris Burning? (1967) Is patriotism subtle? Not very
• The Taming of the Shrew (1967) A scenery buffet for the Battling Burtons
• Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) Extravagant concentrated nostalgia
The Seventies
• The Exorcist (1973) A possessed bedroom
• Tom Sawyer (1973) Stovepipe and steamboat nostalgia
• Fellini's Casanova (1976) Grotesque extravagance
• The Molly Maguires (1970) Demolition and preservation
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Supertanker
• All that Jazz (1979) The creative erotics of scaffolding
The Eighties
• Querelle (1982) explicit architecture
• Amadeus (1984) Paper opulence
• Brazil (1985) Duct soup
• Beaches (1988) Color schemes
• Batman (1989) Nightmare at the museum
• Fanny & Alexander (1982/1983) theatrical magic
• Querelle (1982) explicit architecture
The Nineties
• The Age of Innocence (1993) a living museum
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Dracula's astounding castle
• Orlando (1992) Otherworldy pageantry
• Toys (1992) Surreal spaces
• Addam's Family Values (1993) Setting fire to Thanksgiving
• The Madness of King George (1994) Cluttered musty madness
• Sleepy Hollow (1999) Historical realism meets nightmarish fantasy
• Topsy Turvy (1999) Imperial fantasy in Gilbert & Sullivan's London
Sidebars to TV and Oscars
• Best of Absolutely Fabulous - Special Report
• Emmy Production Design 2016 - Should win? Penny Dreadful, Veep, etc
• Emmy Production Design 2017 - Should win? The Young Pope, Feud, etc
• Oscar Set Design 2016 - Art Deco Again
• Oscar Set Design 2017 - Swarovski Crystal Diamond Mine
• The Furniture's Personal Oscar Ballot 2017 The Beguiled and more...
2000-2015
• Dreamgirls (2006) Fame flattens your dream(girls), boys
• Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Feasts of flesh
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) Chicanery and posterity
• The Skin I Live In (2011) Decorating obsession
• Brooklyn (2015) and Carol (2015) Dramatically different department stores
• Joy (2015) Emerald city of home shopping
• Lady in the Van (2015) Crime scene home
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) The Forest
Recent Cinema
• 20th Century Women (2016) Unfinished house, collaborative kitchen
• Arrival (2016) and Passengers (2016) Lost in space and time
• Atomic Blonde (2017) Neon nihilism
• The Beguiled (2017) A plaster haze
• Beatriz at Dinner (2017) Tacky muted mansion
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Canadian brutalism in LA
• Childhood of a Leader (2016) Cruel curtained childhood
• The Conjuring 2 (2016) Malevolent secret codes
• Colossal (2017) Hoarding and emptiness
• Deadpool (2016) Junkyard
• Double Lover (2017/2018) cracked mirrors
• Embrace of the Serpent (2015/2016) The venomous and fanatical
• The Eyes of My Mother (2016) Stark contrasts and devotional objects
• Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) 70's sitcom styles
• Fantastic Beasts (2016) and La La Land (2016) Magic unreality
• Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) Exuberant fandom
• Frantz (2017) Decorating for a lost generation
• Get Out (2017) Beige house of colonial horrors
• Ghostbusters (2016) Shrieking color scheme
• Hail Caesar (2016) Merrily We Dance
• Hell or High Water (2016) Old West descendants
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) A warm welcome
• Jackie (2016) and Paterson (2016) Home décor
• King Arthur Legend of the Sword (2017) Reframing King Arthur
• The Lobster (2016) Phony flowers
• The Lost City of Z (2017) deranged ambitions and indulgent fantasies
• Love and Friendship (2016) Country charm
• The Love Witch (2016) A tarot reading
• Mudbound (2017) architectural metaphors
• Personal Shopper (2017) Framing the unseen
• A Quiet Passion (2017) floral punctuations
• The Salesman (2016/2017) Crafting his own stage
• The Shape of Water (2017) A neon green future
• Slack Bay (2017) Giddy grotesqueries
• Star Trek Beyond (2016) Terrestrial fun
• Toni Erdmann (2016) The dangers of corporate upholstery
• Wiener-Dog (2016) Sickly green cages
• The Witch (2016) Design heralds doom
