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"Must-See Movies Starring Architecture and Design\nIn some films, a house, castle, or high-rise apartment quietly rounds out the characters' personalities. In others, the set is key to the plot. Then there are movies where the location becomes the whole point of watching. With that in mind, we at AD scanned our Netflix queues for motion pictures in which architecture or interior design play major roles. So sit back, grab the remote control, and check out our favorite cinematic settings\nThe pale apartment of dapper detective Nick Charles (William Powell) and his heiress wife, Nora (Myrna Loy), is a template for sleek, sophisticated midcentury-modern decor. Ironically, however, the sets\u2014the work of MGM supervising art director Cedric Gibbons, with David Townsend and Edwin B. Willis\u2014were streamlined due to budget constraints, not a devotion to style.\nWarner Bros. asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design the skyscraper at the center of this adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, but his proposed fee was considered outrageous and art director Edward Carrere's imitations sufficed. The building's construction becomes a battleground between Howard Roark (a fiery architect played by Gary Cooper) and Dominique Francon (an equally temperamental heiress portrayed by Patricia Neal). Their on-screen passion was a reflection of their offscreen romance.\nJacques Tati, \"the French Charlie Chaplin,\" exposes the pitfalls of modern life, modern architecture, and modern coffeepots in this spoof set in a cutting-edge suburban home. The house, including the garden's grand mosaic of alternating rectangles of grass and pink, white, black, and yellow gravel, was designed by Jacques Lagrange.\nChanel-clad Delphine Seyrig is the star of this hypnotic Alain Resnais movie, but the real draw is the surreal setting. The stark landscape of ch\u00E2teau interiors, fountains, topiaries, and parterres is actually a skillful cinematic mingling of disassociated details from various European historic sites, including Germany's Nymphenburg and Schleissheim palaces.\nIn this dramatization of Truman Capote's novella, set decorators Sam Comer and Ray Moyer gave Patricia Neal's socialite character a luxurious apartment that looks like a pastry\u2014swathed in aquamarine fabrics and accented by white upholstery and white statues.\nDustin Hoffman plays Ben Braddock, a university graduate who gets trapped in an affair with the lusty wife (Anne Bancroft) of his father's law partner as well as in a series of cloyingly smart mid-'60s interiors. Most were created on soundstages by set designer George R. Nelson, though several Southern California landmarks were used for exteriors, including the Ambassador Hotel.\nWith modern British architecture as a backdrop, director Stanley Kubrick created a spare dystopian future. The notable locations included a celebrated Japanese garden by Milton Grundy and the interiors of Skybreak, a country house codesigned by Team 4, the architectural group composed of Norman Foster, Wendy Cheeseman, Richard Rogers, and Su Brumwell.\nWoody Allen's portrait of a dysfunctional family headed by a control-freak interior decorator named Eve (Geraldine Page) is largely set in a house awash in a color that production designer Mel Bourne called \"muted clay beige.\" The details that went into the sets' achingly good taste reflect Page's character and her obsessive personality. For example, all the windows were reglazed with meticulous lines of putty, Bourne explained, because that's what Eve would have done.\nDirector Ridley Scott took film noir into the future in this darkly entertaining science-fiction thriller, depicting 2019 Los Angeles as one large, rainy Times Square. Harrison Ford's handsome apartment, meanwhile, became the masculine ideal imprinted on every razor commercial for the following decade. The setting for the film's climactic fight scene was L.A.'s Bradbury Building, an 1893 Italian Renaissance Revival landmark.\nBrian DePalma turned architect John Lautner's cliffside Chemosphere House into one of the characters in this violent ode to Alfred Hitchcock. Key scenes also pull in iconic L.A. buildings, including the giant outdoor hot dog, Tail O' the Pup.\nOutside, the aristocratic English country house in Merchant Ivory's affecting masterpiece about downstairs life is Dyrham Park, a magnificent Baroque mansion in Gloucestershire. Inside, it is, among other majestic homes, Badminton House, the seat of the dukes of Beaufort. So every scene is chockablock with rare antiques, stunning statuary, and masses of gilt-wood frames.\nNancy Meyers's romantic comedy stars Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and an elegantly relaxed beach house in the Hamptons, with interiors by production designer Jon Hutman and set decorator Beth Rubino. The house's spacious windowed kitchen\u2014with all-white cabinets and soapstone-look countertops\u2014was a huge hit with audiences and ended up influencing scores of renovations across the country.\nDirected by fashion designer Tom Ford, this film features two stunning spaces at opposite ends of the design spectrum: Lautner's sleek and sparse 1949 redwood-and-glass Schaffer residence, which stands in as the home of the title character, played by actor Colin Firth, and the glamorous Hollywood Regency interior (shown above) of Julianne Moore's character.\nA ruggedly sophisticated stony bunker on the New England coast\u2014the actual location used was an island in the Baltic Sea\u2014is director Roman Polanski's metaphor for a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) who harbors dangerous secrets. The interiors of the house were created by set designer Albrecht Konrad, who had them constructed at a Berlin film studio."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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