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Reading the description for Severance, a show about a workplace where — thanks to a surgical procedure that severs the connection between work and personal life — its employees forget all about life outside the office for the duration of the workday, one could imagine an environment as mundane as Dunder Mifflin. But when production designer Jeremy Hindle got his hands on Dan Erickson’s high-concept script, he saw something much more interesting. “I think it’s really 2001: A Space Odyssey as an office,” he says.
Before meeting with the project’s director and executive producer Ben Stiller, Hindle created an extensive look book. Unbeknownst to him, both he and Stiller had envisioned the architectural style of Eero Saarinen and interior designer Kevin Roche as inspiration for the production design. Together, they landed on the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, designed by Saarinen and Roche,...
Reading the description for Severance, a show about a workplace where — thanks to a surgical procedure that severs the connection between work and personal life — its employees forget all about life outside the office for the duration of the workday, one could imagine an environment as mundane as Dunder Mifflin. But when production designer Jeremy Hindle got his hands on Dan Erickson’s high-concept script, he saw something much more interesting. “I think it’s really 2001: A Space Odyssey as an office,” he says.
Before meeting with the project’s director and executive producer Ben Stiller, Hindle created an extensive look book. Unbeknownst to him, both he and Stiller had envisioned the architectural style of Eero Saarinen and interior designer Kevin Roche as inspiration for the production design. Together, they landed on the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, designed by Saarinen and Roche,...
- 7/31/2022
- by Carita Rizzo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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