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SAXON HENRY

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Category: Films

Using remarkable films as inspiration for literary design explorations can coalesce into brand elevating content and entertaining reads. I’m a movie lover so I’m always excited when I hit upon an idea that intermingles films, design and literature.

One of my all-time favorite films for the quirkiness of its set is The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson. It just so happens, it is also the favorite movie of a young writer, Miles Stephenson, who did a guest blog post for me after a trip we’d spent stalking the Lost Generation in Paris. His brilliant idea was to contrast and compare the writing of Ernest Hemingway and Anderson. Guess who we happened to bump into one evening at Chez Georges? The movie director himself, whose pictured in the post with Miles, a beaming fan!

I used a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther, as inspiration for an exploration of the film Assassination Tango coupled with a trip to the zoo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which Robert Duvall’s character in the film visits in order to see the black panther there. Titled Ode to the Panther, the diary entry finds me reading Rilke’s poem to the lethargic panther who is languishing in the summer heat. It was one of my strangest literary adventures to date!

I’m also in Argentina when I channel Sally Potter and her film The Tango Lesson, traipsing around town photographing a young Argentine woman whose narrative I’ve invented finds her searching for her milonguero who has cut out on her! Potter’s film remains one of my favorites about this remarkable dance and its ability to break hearts, which I explore in The Architecture of Tango. There are many more posts in my repertoire that explore film. I hope you enjoy my quirky point of view as I’m looking at them from a cultural perspective.

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Books DesignLabs Films

Harlow at Bergdorfs!

Saxon Henry January 14, 2015 actors and actressesdesign industry leadersdesign narrativesliterary design encountersNew York Citynonfiction writers

I stood for a while admiring the chandelier in the window at Bergdorf Goodman. There was something about its icy lozenges of light telescoping out…

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Films Literature Travel

Ode to The Panther

Saxon Henry November 11, 2014 actors and actressesarchitectural storytellingdead poets societyEmotionality of Architecturefamous writersnonfiction writerspoetrypopular moviesThe Literary Adventurer

During my first trip to Argentina in 2004, my bucket list included visiting the Buenos Aires zoo. This was not a wish born of an…

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Center stage in this image is a Sheffield Plate Beehive Tea Machine; image courtesy The London Silver Vaults.
Films Historical Design Television Series

Jane Austen Era Silver

Saxon Henry August 6, 2014 actors and actressesantiques shopping in Europedecorating historydesign narrativesEnglandfamous writersfine antiquesGreat BritainGroundbreakersHenry Jamesliterary design encountersLondonnovelistspopular moviesRegency EraRococo Style

If you are a fan of movies inspired by the novels of Jane Austen but you haven’t read her books, you may be surprised to know…

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Jeanne Moreau stars in Bay of Angels.
Films Furniture Design Television Series

A Jet Set Fantasy

Saxon Henry April 16, 2014 actors and actressesAmerican furniture manufacturersdecorating historydesign industry leadersdesign narrativesEmpire Stylefashion influences interiorsHigh Point MarketLouis XIVParispopular movieswriting desks

When the Bernhardt Jet Set buffet flowed through the raucous column of my Tweetdeck during the #HPMkt Twitter chat on the evening of March 12th, I chased…

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