Farmhouse

Contrast between Ivan ilych House design and an authentic russian farmhouse interior posted purely forcomparison in wealth and design.Description: A 19th century farmhouse of the Vladimir Province, Central Russia, at the Vladimir regional museum of 18th and 19th century wooden architecture and everyday peasant life. http://visualrian.com/images/item/145689

This is a rough floor plan of out set build drawn on Auto cad by Sarah as you can see the furniture is not drawn to scale but the room is. The drawing room is 12x12

And the smaller room off the study is 12x10ft

Included in this Auto cad drawing is all the items of main furniture we hope to create a re-creat i will be posting links to interesting furniture designs and hisotrical furniture in the future.

Set designers

This post looks into how set designers create a working space that hopefully we can look at and learn from.

But What is a Set Designer ?

Set Designers or Production designers work with Directors to create the space for film,theatre and television production you will need to know everything about the scale of the design and the research including props. You are in charge of the overall look. and will have to have knowledge of many key skills as well as discussing ideas to the Directors and communicating with lighting designers, costume designers and set builders. You must understand the costs in order to create the set to budget and have a wide knowledge of historical context and futuristic ideas and be able to oversee the building and dressing of the rooms. This role best describes what are group have done with the exception of construction which we also had to learn, though some exceeded at the hands on construction better then others.

(the images above are sets from Eastenders www.walfordwebforums.co.uk)
The first image shows an aerial shot of numerous rooms in a house in this case it was the Queen Vic Pub in Eastenders, in this photo you can See the 8ft flats that we will build at a later date.
In the second image you can see a fake staircase that doesn't lead anywhere the top of this staircase will be situated most likely in another situation.

Cabinet ideas

Cabinets

In the last half of the 18th century, cabinet makers such as Thomas Sheraton, Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite also published books of furniture forms. These books were compendiums of their designs and those of other cabinet makers.As you can see there is a wide variety of styles french baroque, Victorian mahogany any would fit in with Ivan Ilych as he did not necessarily have Russian furniture. The images show a variety of cabinets and my own sketches interpret these on the next post
images found www.google.com/cabinets1800

Other Furniture from the 18th / 19th century


image 1 Antique Russian Porcelain Urn C1780, Gardner Factory.
image 2 18th Century Chippendale Commode Carver Armchair
image 3 1840s Pair French Bronze Candlesticks
all images courtesy of http://www.roys-antiques.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=1105&category_id=6&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=33

Wallpaper in the 19th century

With images from the Palace of Versailles you can see the Baroque era reflected into the interior these images were take on a recent trip to Paris allthough parisian and not russian like our set will be it shows the use of wallpaper and furniture. Images Above.

Thankfully Wallpaper was massive in the 19Th century thanks to print makers such as William Morris not William Wallace I always confuse the two !

(below is wallpaper designed by william morris in

1875 Marigold )

Designs often showed greenery such as ferns and vines and whole rooms could be covered entirely in the same wallpaper with matching fabric and drapery this can be seen in French interior mainly.

Looking into the interior of Ivan Ilych Home in the late 19Th century:

Design ideas using the inspiration of hands as candle holders:
a quick sketch showing two separate designs of candle holders
One is of two hand praying holding a candle in between
Could be made using polystyrene and paper mache ? Praying significant to death ?
the other shows hands clenching a candle ( i found similar designs that can be brought these are ceramic candle holders image above nerdapproved.com )

photo and my own sketches

Browsing the Internet I came across this photo of a 19th century inspired room though not what we may want i thought it shows alot of detail into the layout of the room.

I also sketched my own ideas of how the rooms would look the below images have been seen by the group and we tried to interpret each others designs in our set.