Sure, Apple TV+ series “For All Mankind” tells a re-imagined history of the U.S. v. Russians space race from the 1960s to ’70s, but careful attention is paid to making the screen presentation impressively accurate. Veteran set decorator Dianna Freas insists that all of the 17 sets have “aesthetic integrity.”
The largest set is Mission Control, which took almost four months to create. The consoles have actual buttons (that work) as well as real graphics, and all the reference books on the shelves are authentic. There are even actual flight manuals in binders. “We used heavy visual research and we were able to match the consoles from Nasa. About half of them are rented,” Freas says. “One of the most challenging things to find were the chairs for that room. They are tanker chairs and you cannot get that many matching chairs, and we needed 40 and they were all created from scratch.
The largest set is Mission Control, which took almost four months to create. The consoles have actual buttons (that work) as well as real graphics, and all the reference books on the shelves are authentic. There are even actual flight manuals in binders. “We used heavy visual research and we were able to match the consoles from Nasa. About half of them are rented,” Freas says. “One of the most challenging things to find were the chairs for that room. They are tanker chairs and you cannot get that many matching chairs, and we needed 40 and they were all created from scratch.
- 7/3/2020
- by Lisa DiGiovine
- Gold Derby
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