TV's Most Beautiful Interiors - Part 2

(Living Room from Ringer)Last time, we discussed one of tv’s most beautiful interiors - a loft-style apartment found on the set of Bones. I discovered another gorgeous interior – on the set of Ringer, a television show about double identities and murder, starring Sarah Michelle Geller.

Ringer is set in a New York City high-rise apartment and thanks to the design skills of Steven Wolff, it’s a feast for the eyes.  Drawing upon the background of the storyline, Wolff created a very elegant and sophisticated design for New York socialites Siobban and Andrew Martin’s home.  For the living room, Wolff started with a lively striped-pattern fabric (seen in the settee above) and took those colors of cream, wine, and ochre and extrapolated it, applying the colors to the rest of the spacious living room.

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Lights, Camera, Action! TV's Most Beautiful Interiors - Part I

(Bones' loft)The camera might be focusing on the melodrama between the actors, but I’m always checking out the set design of the television show. After wading through a lot of mediocre sets, these interiors sparked my interest!

(Dr. "Bones", played by Emily Deschanel)Bones, from the Fox network, may have a grisly theme and name, but the set designs are fabulous. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan - played by Emily Deschanel - investigates the skeletal remains of murder victims for clues in the soaring and unique setting of the imaginary Jeffersonian Institute.  The Institute is part museum and part laboratory space – one wall contains from floor to ceiling a display case filled with bones that’s backlit for a ghostly effect. 

But it’s Bones’ home – a renovated loft - that really shows off the design talent of the show’s set designer, Kim Wannop.

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