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In-depth guides and practical articles on designer wallcoverings.

• The Overlook's walls: how Kubrick used pattern to make a hotel feel wrong In The Shining, the Overlook's surfaces carry real weight. A look at how Stanley Kubrick and designer Roy Walker built dread into a gilded interior, and how later horror interiors work along similar lines.
• The Tenenbaum zebras: the true story of one wallcovering that stole a movie The black-and-white zebra hallway in The Royal Tenenbaums is a real, documented design with a history older than the film. How Wes Anderson turned a decades-old pattern into a character.
• How a set decorator actually gets a wall treatment onto a film Behind the on-screen room is a union craft of clearances, quantities, continuity, and impossible deadlines. A plain-language look at who chooses the walls and how.
• Shooting at Versailles: how period productions get the walls right Marie Antoinette filmed inside the palace itself; Mad Men aged its walls across a decade; Bridgerton papered a fantasy. What each approach reveals about surface accuracy on screen.
• Barbie Land was almost entirely surface — and it worked The 2023 Barbie built its world out of saturated color and pattern rather than architecture. What its production design shows about letting a surface carry a whole room.
• Wallpaper's Silent Storytelling: When Texture Speaks Volumes in Film