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"On the Set of Carnage\nHollywood production designer Dean Tavoularis, whose credits include The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, talks about creating the Brooklyn apartment that serves as the setting for Roman Polanski's latest film\nMichael and Penelope Longstreet (John C. Reilly and Jodie Foster) invite Alan and Nancy Cowan (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) to their home to talk, after the Cowans' son strikes their boy in the face with a stick. To create a credible Brooklyn apartment on a French soundstage, production designer Dean Tavoularis brought in American fixtures and appliances, and meticulously placed objects on walls and shelves that would be consistent with a New York home. Among the details in this scene is a baseball and glove that can just be made out over Winslet's shoulder.\nMost of the film takes place in the Longstreets' living room. A number of the furnishings came from Christian Sapet, a dealer in Saint-Ouen on the outskirts of Paris, including the vintage Edward Wormley side tables flanking the sofa. The Art Deco square light on the mantel is actually Tavoularis's own, and the quartet of framed textiles to the left of the fireplace are traditional Moroccan weavings (worn by Berber women on their shoulders), acquired from the Paris gallery Escale Nomad. \"The cameraman wanted to backlight them,\" says Tavoularis, \"so he actually cut a hole in the wall behind each one and added a small illumination.\"\nThe multicolor 1970s American rug Waltz is seated on came from Sapet, as did the pale-blue glass lamp, also American, on the console table next to Foster. The colored glass vessels on the table were from Maisons du Monde in Paris, while the table itself was purchased from the Paris shop Asiatides. Set decorator Franckie Diago handpicked the numerous art books\u2014prize possessions of Foster's character\u2014from the Paris bookstore Mona Lisait.\nIn this scene, where Winslet and Waltz clean up in the bathroom following her character's vomiting episode, the attention to detail paid by Tavoularis and his team can be seen in the American bath products, radiator, and electrical outlets. \"I wanted every light switch, every electrical plug on set to work, which meant that they had to be 110 volts,\" says the designer. \"Any French things had to have the plugs cut off and American plugs put on.\" The views of Brooklyn out the window were added digitally during postproduction.\nExamples of tribal art are displayed throughout the apartment, including the tall, carved-wood piece seen here\u2014a decorative beam used by Moroccan nomads to support their tents\u2014acquired from Escale Nomad. The dining table is an old butcher's workbench bought at a Paris fleamarket, and the model of the Chrysler Building, between the china cabinets, is actually a 3-D puzzle that Tavoularis had owned for years but never assembled. \"I had this talented assistant put it together, because I thought it would be an item that a couple with children might have. As soon as the last shot was finished, I immediately grabbed it, and now it's in my home.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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