How ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Inspired ‘The Viewing’ Set in ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s: Cabinet of Curiosities’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Production designer Tamara Deverell was tasked with creating eight different periods and working with eight different directors for Netflix’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.” The anthology series required Deverell, 2020’s artisan award recipient for production design, to tap into her love for building gritty sets and build everything from a brutalist architecture room inspired by her work on “Star Trek: Discovery” to using an old warehouse for an alien autopsy.
Here Deverell breaks down some of her favorite sets from the series. The first episode tells the story of Tim Blake Nelson as Nick Appleton, who purchases the titular Lot 36 from a recently deceased old man and discovers strange items such as a séance table and rare books.
However, the Lot also holds dark demonic secrets That was storage lockers gone crazy. We built the storage lockers. Because I had done “The Strain” with Guillermo, we had shot actual storage lockers.
We had to build the storage lockers, and we kept that ceiling open so our DP could light the set. That set was an endless maze and it was about aging.
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