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Parts of a Chair
Learning the names and terms for parts of objects is important in developing your shared vocabulary for easier communication. If a designer asks you to “make the splat wider”, you don’t want to waste your time trying to widen a drop of paint.
For chairs, this was a little tricky trying to distill down all the [...]
Money money money
Mint.com recently had a posting showing pictures of over twenty different kinds of historical US currency. Some of the pictures are really fascinating with the colors used, and the large denominations which used to be in circulation.
The Secret Service, which enforces counterfeiting laws in the United States, has very clear rules governing the reproduction of [...]
A brief intro to furniture history
Furniture history is important to most props people. This is obviously an enormously complicated and involved topic. My aim here is merely to point to some resources for a general overview. Sometimes, a topic is so overwhelming, you don’t even know where to begin.
Maltwood has a useful History of Furniture timeline. The chart breaks down [...]
Set Decorators Society of America
I haven’t done any film or television prop work, so I was unaware of them, but the Set Decorators Society of America has quite a handy website. First off, they show off the decor in films which their members have worked on. These are extensive photo-essays showing the sets from these films, often without actors [...]
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