Outstanding Set Design

Nicholas & Alexandra, 1971. Sumptuous. Won the Oscar that year.

Sorry^^

THE LADIES MAN starring Jerry Lewis (1961)

Wait a damn minute! Are there a bunch of homosexuals on this website? Cuz suddenly I'm thinking there's a whole bunch of homosexuals here.

No one on Reddit posts about stuff like this.

Brian Keith's adobe ranch mansion in "The Parent Trap".

It's sublime for 1961, or any year!

Suspiria

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Suspiria...Yes!

Auntie Mame (duh! LOL):

And Kubrick's 2001 . . .

The beach house used in Gracie and Frankie

The great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Tricks of the Trade

Magical...

Sid Luft had a clause in his producing contract for A Star Is Born where he and Judy could take anything from the set that the studio didn't want for something like 10% of the original cost. He saw to it that the beach house set was decorated beautifully. When the film was over, Warners didn't want the furniture, so he took the lot and furnished their fancy house in Holmby Hills with it.

Barry Lyndon

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The shabby-luscious interiors of Jojo's house in "Jojo Rabbit." Which Architectural Digest says are Victorian-Art Deco but look Jugenstil to me.

R9 I remember being a kid and catching the scene between the father and his daughter on a telephone with a camera. I thought it was so futuristic, maybe something only people in 200 years would have.

Turns out we have better phones today.

- That beautiful beachside house in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Victor Victoria

The incomparable Ken Adams (who won an Oscar for Barry Lyndon, mentioned above) and his iconic war room from Dr. Strangelove:

Derek Jarman's startling reimagining of Loudon for The Devils.

Rear Window

A Place in the Sun

Mildred Pierce

THE HANDMAID'S TALE is a dark dystopian future world...

But I kind of want to live there. And move into the Waterman's house.

(Okay, not Offred's room.)

Seriously, it's some of the best production design in movies or TV right now.

Waterford's house, not Waterman's.

For some reason I loved the Freelings house in Poltergeist!

Also-

The sumptuous homes in Leave Her To Heaven (unreal)

And that house in Christmas In Connecticut is where I would want to live

Coppola's One From The Heart. Gorgeous design.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. (Just realized this has been turned into a play while doing a search for Pepa's apartment set.)

I also LOVE the montage opening credits for this movie. I knew I would love the movie before it even started, just based on the montage, her red telephone, the relationships carried out over answeing machine messages.

We take it for granted now, but "Star Wars"!! ("A New Hope")

Before that sci-fi films all had a similar cheap, cheesy, modernistic/futuristic look, but "Star Wars" had a totally revolutionary and believable look - and on the same low budget as any of its cheesy predecessors! From the earthen architecture and broken-down tech of Tattooine, to the expensive futurism of the Imperial Fleet, to the shoestring military of the Rebellion... it was the best kind of set design. You looking at those worlds and their available resources told you everything you needed to know about the characters who lived there, and it all looked REAL. It looked like people actually lived and worked there and lived in the sets and used the props every day, which was a first for the sci-fi/fantasy genre.

I've praised the costumes equally highly elsewhere, BTW, same deal.

Bette Davis’ loft space in “ Deception” (1946). Located on the top floor of a downtown office building. Take the freight elevator, located off the shopping arcade in the building’s first floor. Exit the landing cluttered with boxes and packing crates. Take the concrete stairs to the unassuming entrance door. Open to an amazing space with the appropriate mix of antiques and modern furniture and a wall of windows with a city and river view. Very modern. Exquisite. You could move in today.

^ Fantastic site!

"Desk Set."

I love the house in Lana Del Rey's White Mustang video. Looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright home.

North by Northwest house

As a child I wanted to live in Mary Tyler Moore's first apartment. I LOVED the little step up area with the shag carpet. I hated her second apartment even though it had a bedroom.

Loved The Home Alone totally 80's house, especially the kitchen!

The "Something's Gotta Give" Beach house was to die for!

Topsy Turvy, the Mike Leigh film about Gilbert & Sullivan

I second "Desk Set", especially the executive suite.

"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is Mad Men on mushrooms.

"Smother" starring Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard and Liv Tyler. Diane is Dax's mother. She lives in a textbook 1970s MCM house that hasn't been touched and Dax and Liv live in the picture perfect Craftsman bungalow with amazing woodwork, 1950s kitchen and what I now know is called a "clawfoot shower". There aren't any good set photos online.

"The Kennedys: After Camelot" recreated every minute detail of Jackie's apartment.

Omar Sharif on the Moscow street set built in Spain for Doctor Zhivago (1965); John Box (production designer), Terence Marsh (art director), and Dario Simoni (set decorator) won the Oscar.

The famous "ice palace" in Doctor Zhivago:

Broadway Melody of 1936

The Gang's All Here

Jacques Tati's mind-blowing construction of an entire city set, for PLAYTIME.

Via Wikipedia:

"The film is famous for its enormous, specially constructed set and background stage, known as 'Tativille', which contributed significantly to the film's large budget, said to be 17 million francs. The set required a hundred construction workers to construct along with its own power plant. Budget crises and other disasters stretched the shooting schedule to three years, including 1.4 million francs in repairs after the set was damaged by storms.[1] Tati observed, correctly, that the cost of building the set was no greater than what it would have cost to have hired Elizabeth Taylor or Sophia Loren for the leading role.[1] Budget overruns forced Tati to take out large loans and personal overdrafts to cover ever-increasing production costs.

To save money, some of the building facades and the interior of the Orly set were actually giant photographs. (The photographs also had the advantage of not reflecting the camera or lights.) The Paris landmarks Barbara sees reflected in the glass door are also photographs. Tati also used life-sized cutout photographs of people to save money on extras. These cutouts are noticeable in some of the cubicles when Hulot overlooks the maze of offices, and in the deep background in some of the shots at ground level from one office building to another."

Tony Sopranos kitchen...so 1990s!

"The 10,000 Fingers of Dr. T."

Regardless of what you may think of the movie, the Titanic set was spectacular:

I loved Gertrude Stein's apartment set in Midnight in Paris.

1990s Casper movie. Whipstaff Manor in Maine.

Lost Horizon

The Ice Palac in Dr Zhivago was fabulous. Unrealistic....but fabulous.

I’ve seen it used in many other movies, but the hall and stair featured in “Nanny McFee “ knocks me into flaminess. Yeah, I’d live in that universe.

As mentioned by a poster, the sets from Leave Her to Heaven were incredible. Here's an article with great shots of all the sets. My fave is the southwestern one.

Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg owns this thread.

The grandma's apartment(s) in Fanny and Alexander were exquisite.