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Los Angeles ◆ 8600 Melrose Avenue ◆ California 90069 ◆ Telephone 310-652-9999 www.mansourrug.com SDSA FALL 2003 9/7 9/10/03 9:46 AM Page 8 contents SETDECOR Set Decorators Society of America Fall 2003 44 40 Zen and the Art of Set Decorating 53 Environments of crime 54 NYPD BLUE Mary Ann Biddle, David Smith, Archie D’Amico 60 THE PRACTICE Cheryal Kearney 60 THE SHIELD Michele Poulik 58 HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE and TRAINING DAY Jan Pascale 61 Los Angeles Police Historical Society Museum 64 Film decor 36 Academy Gallery Exhibition 44 CAT IN THE HAT Anne Kuljian 46 THE WHOLE 10 YARDS Peg Cummings 48 ANYTHING ELSE Regina Graves 23 64 THE ITALIAN JOB Denise Pizzini 68 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Larry Dias Television decor ® ATAS/NATAS 23 55th Annual Emmy Awards 74 FRASIER Ron Olsen 76 MONSTER HOUSE Tara Stephenson In Every Issue 48 30 In the News KC Fox makes the cover of ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, On the Cover: Feature film CAT IN THE Sandy Reynolds-Wasco featured in Cooper-Hewitt museum HAT; Set Decorator: Anne Kuljian SDSA; exhibition, and more…. Production Designer: Alex McDowell; photo by Eric Lulig; courtesy of 28 Website: www.setdecorators.org 54 Universal Studios/Dreamworks LLC 78 Events Calendar and SDSA summer meeting at Old Pine 58 86 SDSA Honors: Eddie Baer, founding member 80 In the Spotlight: Props Services West 82 What’s in Store 84 Book Review: Vintage Victorian Textiles by Brian D Coleman SDSA Production Credits 94 Television 95 Commercials 96 Film 8 SDSA FALL 2003 9/7 9/10/03 9:46 AM Page 9 9 SDSA FALL 2003 9/7 9/10/03 9:46 AM Page 10 contributors SETDECOR Set Decorators Society of America Eric Althoff writes for numerous publications, including SET DECOR, and frequently Fall 2003 works as a freelance editor. His behind-the-scenes knowledge of the entertainment Editors: industry is enhanced by his occasional work as an assistant to independent location and Rosemary Brandenburg script departments, allowing him to continue work on his first novel. Jan K. Bergstrom Sybil Coffey SDSA studied set design at Carnegie-Mellon University and environmental Jan Pascale design at the Art Center College of Design. After working in theater in New York, she Managing Editor: Karen Burg moved to Los Angeles as a special effects fabricator, then graduated to set decorator. Art Director: Kim Grover, Abierto SET DECOR indulges her interest in unusual, historic and endangered architecture and Printer: Sinclair Printing Company its social significance, by highlighting its place in film and television history. Sybil, her hus- band, and animal menagerie live in the Hermon area of Los Angeles. Advertising: Bob Yonchak Contributors Tim Colohan SDSA has been decorating for film and television since 1992. Prior to that Joanne Baker, Mary Ann Biddle, he did not know what a set decorator was. He had kept himself busy painting, selling Jeffrey Bowman, Ellen Brill, Peg his artwork in galleries and working nights as a waiter, until the age of 40, when he dove Cummings, Archie D’Amico, Daryn- Reid Goodall, Jason Howard, Richard into film and TV work. Colohan has been practicing Zen meditation since 1985 and is a Kurtz, Denise Pizzini, Erica Rogalla, Senior Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen. He has two children and lives Kate Sheeley, Gordon Sim, David with his domestic partner in Los Feliz. Smith, Tara Stephenson Photographers Shana Nys Dambrot is an independent art critic and author based in Los Angeles. Her Jim Bissell; Lisa Dare, Lisa Dare work is published in ARTWEEK, tema celeste, COAGULA, flavorpill.net and ONE Photography; Melinda Sue Gordon; WORLD MAGAZINE. Currently, she is the Art Gallery Director at The Hand Prop Room, Ken Haber; Fred Licht; Emmanuel Lubezki; Eric Lulig; Elliott Marks, where she grows to love set decorators more every day. SMPSP; Dan Morski; Missy Stewart Photographs courtesy of Nancy S Eaton received her BFA in Art History and Ceramics from Mass College of Art and MHDA in the History Of Decorative Arts from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum/ Parsons Architectural Digest; Thomas Ed Baer; Mary Ann Biddle; School of Design. After spending ten years in the museum world, she moved to LA in Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, 1997 to become Curator of Collections for Textile Artifacts and Design Director for Warner Bros Televison/NBC; Peg Archive Edition Textiles. Cummings; Archie D’Amico; Disney Enterprises Inc and Jerry Bruckheimer Inc; Cooper-Hewitt National Design When Florence Fellman SDSA isn’t set decorating she’s writing, or she’s thinking about Museum; Grub Street Productions, what she just wrote, or she’s thinking about what she’s just about to write. She’s a shin- Paramount/NBC; Karin Wiesel Holmes; ing example of angst meets procrastination meets a deadline. She’s been a set decora- Cheryal Kearney; Rusty Lipscomb; Miramax; Museum of Contemporary tor since 1981 and currently, her company, Seashell Architectura, is covering everything Art, Los Angeles; Perdido Productions; in the world in exotic seashells. Denise Pizzini; Michele Poulik; Sandy Reynolds-Wasco; Gordon Sim; David Smith; Tara Stephenson; Universal Ken Haber was a location manager for twenty-five years, for which his art background Studios; Warner Bros and his photography played a very important role. He worked for such directors as Emmy® ATAS/NATAS image courtesy of the Adrian Lyne, Oliver Stone, and Ridley Scott. Three years ago, he transitioned into script Academy of Television Arts and Sciences writing and serves as manager of the LA office of the Maryland Film Office. He is mar- Oscar ©AMPAS ® image courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ried to Set Decorator Rosemary Brandenburg SDSA, and has shot many of her sets. He frequently contributes photographs of both sets and events to SET DECOR. SET DECOR Subscriptions: $12/year Amy Vuckovich’s BFA in painting from the California Institute of the Arts and AFI Masters Advertising rates and information: Bob Yonchak 323-462-3060 Degree in production design led her into film work in 1985. Set decoration seems a nat- Email: [email protected] ural fit. An SDSA member and frequent contributor to SET DECOR, she also serves as an alternate for the Set Decorators Steering Committee of IATSE Local 44. She has been SET DECOR magazine is published by married for ten years to a special-effects and prop-maker and has one son, age two, and Set Decorators Society of America a cat of indeterminate age. 940 North Mansfield Avenue Hollywood CA 90038 Christine Wilson provided the illustration for Tim Colohan’s article, “Zen and the Art of Phone: 323-462-3082 Set Decoration.” Her art studio, Contemporary Art Rentals, has cleared original art- Fax: 323-462-3077 Email: [email protected] work for lease, and she produces custom work. Her abstract paintings, commissioned by Set Decorator KC Fox SDSA, appear on page 32 of this issue and in ARCHITEC- SDSA East Coast Office TURAL DIGEST July issue’s cover photograph of the LEGALLY BLONDE 2 film set.