Decorating Pages Podcast Designing Amazon's Hedda: Cara Brower on Rebuilding Ibsen's Classic (Season 8, Episode 42)
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Decorating Pages Podcast

Designing Amazon's Hedda: Cara Brower on Rebuilding Ibsen's Classic (Season 8, Episode 42)

Podcast Episode | Talk-Show

Emmy-winning set decorator Kim Wannop sits down with Production Designer Cara Brower to talk about designing Hedda, Amazon MGM Studios' new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler-now streaming on Prime Video. Brower-whose credits ...See moreEmmy-winning set decorator Kim Wannop sits down with Production Designer Cara Brower to talk about designing Hedda, Amazon MGM Studios' new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler-now streaming on Prime Video. Brower-whose credits include Candyman, The Marvels, Twin Peaks: The Return, Us, and Hail, Caesar!-explains how she found and transformed a single English country estate into Hedda's entire universe: grand staircase, dark entry hall, sensual bedroom, secret telephone nook, glass conservatory with a deadly chandelier, and a lakeside bonfire that bookends the story. The conversation digs into: . How Ibsen's original themes of power, boredom, control, and societal constraints on women informed the design choices . Layering Victorian architecture with Art Deco curves, 1960s-inspired pattern, and bold modern art so Hedda's home feels like a socialite's act of rebellion . Designing Hedda's bedroom as a cold, sensual, almost Hollywood-boudoir space that belongs entirely to her . The engineering and cross-department chaos behind the film's glass chandelier set piece . Why shooting mostly on location-with minimal VFX-makes the film feel more immediate and theatrical Perfect listening if you love period drama, literary history, and extremely opinionated wallpaper. See less