The Oscar-nominated set design for Poor Things aimed to create a "1930s studio movie with today's technology", the film's production designers have told Dezeen.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things tells the story of Bella, played by Emma Stone, who has a child's mind trapped in a grown woman's body ? a plotline that affected how the sets for the black comedy were designed.
"The script dictated our way into the world we were trying to make, and the first way in was to work out how Bella lived," said Shona Heath, who co-created the film's production design with James Price.
Bella's house in Poor Things was informed by the Sir John Soanes museum "Her interior world would have been created by [her father] Godwin Baxter," she told Dezeen. "And he was a maverick doctor, a very precise and artistic man, who had fine taste and was an artist in his way."
Ninety per cent of the action in the film takes place on large sets in Budapest, where the film was shot, with only a small part of it filmed in existing locations.
To create the interior for Bella's home ? built as large sets ? Heath and Price took inspiration from the neo-classical Sir John Soanes Museum in London, which is filled with paintings, antiques and artworks collected by its owner in the 19th century.
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