Designs on Film

Who can forget the over-the-top, white-on-white, high-gloss interiors through which Fred Astaire danced in Top Hat ? The modernist high-rise architecture, inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, in the adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ? The lavish, opulent drawing rooms of Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence ? Through the use of film design—called both art direction and production design in the film industry—movies can transport us to new worlds of luxury, highlight the ornament