Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With The Queens Gambit? – Architectural Digest

He and set decorator Sabine Schaaf transformed the town hall in the Berlin borough of Spandau into the lobby of the fictional Gibson Hotel in Cincinnati; a unique event venue called Palais am Funkturm (designed by Bruno Grimmek in the 50s) into the Hotel Mariposa in Las Vegas; and the Friedrichstadt-Palast theater into an Art Decoinspired Mexico City hotel. The windows [at the theater] are big and have these colorful glass mosaic parts. We didnt want you to look outside and see Berlin. So we copied the pattern and printed it on a foil and put it on the windows, says Hanish.

Midcentury furniture was brought in from a dealer in the Netherlands as well as sourced from Berlin prop houses for sets like the Las Vegas hotel, pictured here.

For each city, we thought about what the biggest clich would be to let you know where you are. he says, but fans will have noticed that wherever the protagonist seems to go, shes enveloped in patterns, patterns, and more patterns. In her Las Vegas hotel room, its a greenish-blue, white, and brown diamond motif on the walls and a blue-and-brown fan pattern on the bedspread, curtains, and chair. In Mexico City, its Osborne & Little's Trailing Orchid print in teal on one wall, Angalyptas Deco Paradiso painted burgundy on the others, and a palm leaf headboard. In France, it is Morris & Co.s Bullerswood print on the walls, a brocade ottoman, and a leafy bedspread and headboard.

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But nowhere is the use of patternsand especially wallpapermore interesting than in the home of Beths adoptive mother, Alma Wheatley (played by Marielle Heller). Schaaf describes the decor there as fireworks, and says that after seeing images of American homes from the period with matching wallpaper and fabrics and busy patterns, she simply ran with the idea. We jumped into these patterns and put layers and layers on top of each other, so even if they dont match, in the end, when you use similar color families, theres a point where it comes together. I love it.

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Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With The Queens Gambit? - Architectural Digest