Kalina ivanov biography examples

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Wonder 7. I love wood details and the archways. Those pieces of wood coming off the archways look like they are reaching for the characters like fingers. KI: You picked up on something that as important to me. When I created these arches, first thing I said to the set designer, Chad Frey, I wanted the arches to have little teeth coming out of them.

I wove it throughout the entire season. They cannot live in peace and they know if they walk down the street, they may never come home. I wanted to embed that into the set without being over the top. Very attractive, seductive but organic to the structure. They were specific to the characters. I started with Leti, and she has a humungous wardrobe in her suitcase.

I pitched s Hollywood glamour with some gothic elements. You can see Joan Crawford in it. There is a very strong concept behind Ardham Lodge that were diametrically different styles that have a lot of meaning. On top, with the dome, I wanted a Romanesque arches and the dome itself was inspired by the Carnegie Mansion and the robber barons.

I wanted to combine two very rich and bad men. AD: For the department store, I love how it was mostly black and white with the wide tile on the floor. The pillars are the same color and the white is on the top to suggest the power dynamics of the time period. KI: It was a location that we completely transformed. Through VFX we created six floors, but the first floor and the staircase were all real.

Thematically, we wanted to show how white people have built America on the backs of slaves. Since that episode is so horrific, I wanted to make that space very playful. I was thinking of Raoul Dufy who did some work for Vincente Minnelli for An American in Parisand I wanted it to kind of feel like a musical when you walked in. AD: I like the dark wood in the Winthrop House and there is so much in there.

The elevator, the wallpaper and the basement are all spectacular.

Kalina ivanov biography examples

Tell me all about that. KI: It needed to be a big size so Leti could have a lot of people in there. The house we found was gorgeous and pristine and it had red wallpaper that was kind of inappropriate. We spoke to the family and we went to town. Just that one element changed it. It prepares you for going inside. For inside, we completely wallpapered the first floor.

We built on stage the dark room, the basement and the elevators, and we practically used the first floor since there was so much action to the street. Misha [Green] and I talked a lot about Hiram, the character who did experiments on Black people. In the book, he had a family and a wife, so I asked Misha if we were basing the house off of the character from the book.

Soon that pencil became an extension of my dreams, and in college those dreams transformed into set designs. Maybe because English is my second language, I find words slippery and I rely on my drawings to best express my ideas. To do that I start drawing on a piece of vellum, and I play with light, space and proportions. I draw fast to avoid over-thinking, and as the pencil moves rhythmically, the design ideas crystallize.

I lose myself in the process, which is now controlled by intuition and passion.