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A couple pieces from M's flat in CR:
Barcelona Chair (Vintage) by Mies van der Rohe***
Barcelona Table by Mies van der Rohe
Aeron Chair by Hermann Miller
***This iconic modernist piece was already used in a Bond film in YOLT as well.
I hope this thread can be a nice little hangout for those of us interested in (Bond) interior!
... and the Interstuhl Silver Chair as well. M's choice is the mid height one.
Interstuhl provided furniture to SP as well, a white Interstuhl MOVYis3 16M0 Conference Chair is the one Madeleine is sitting on during the torture scene:
Didn't know that the chair Madeleine is sitting in is an Interstuhl either – thanks! It's cool that other brands than Omega, Aston Martin and Bollinger make repeat appearances.
Me too! I have to watch YOLT again, but I don't think we get a better view of the light fixture than that angle. Maybe it was something Ken Adam came up with?
That's what pillows are for!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErJNlRkXAAA03pO?format=jpg&name=large
So the books have been identified as:
Time's Arrow, by Martin Amis
A Brilliant Darkness, by Joao Magueijo
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, by Tony Judt
The camera behind the books is apparently a digital Leica M9.
The brown bottle should be Blackwell rum, although to me it looks different then their normal label. And it clearly isn't their Limited Edition 007 rum.
I havent't seen anything on the desk, the lamp, the glassware and the bowl (?).
Edit: I never understand how linking twitter works. Just to be clear, this is where I got the picture from: https://mobile.twitter.com/PhilNobileJr/status/1347224696840982528
@ImpertinentGoon Cheers for sharing a clearer photo. Red matchboxes in the martini glass - would rather see Swan Vestas there instead, but am assuming these are a Jamaican brand.
There's always the possibility that some of these items are custom one-offs made for the film. Or at least, this is what I say when I fail to ID them...
The whiskey bottle and passport are a bit of a headscratcher.
Great summary, @ImpertinentGoon! :-)
The shape of the camera suggest that it might be a Leica, but searching images of the M9, and M10 afterwards, might it be the latter that is seen in the photo?
M10:
I do wonder what lamp that is. Looks familiar. As @QBranch points out though, there might be a few custom made (or maybe even rare vintage) items on display here too.
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Also, I must add those book to my reading list. Could be interesting to read up on the same literature as Bond himself!
For a second, I thought it could be a Q2 as there have been rumours of a 007 special edition of that model for a while, but that one doesn't have the pattern on the case.
Also it makes much more sense to go with the most current, top of the line model.
I see Leica released an update to the M10 recently, the M10-R. Filming for NTTD probably took place too long ago for the camera to be the M10-R though.
More information can be found here.
The Flowerpot lamps was created by Panton in 1968, and originally manufactured by Danish lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen. Clearly inspired by the counterculture movement of the late 60's, verner-panton.com describes the lamps like this:
The lamp (in all its variations) is today produced by &Tradition.
Haha, yes!
I wonder if any of the furniture used in the film on location at Piz Gloria is actually still up there?
The Eames 'Hang-It-All' coat rack: It "could" just be a similar design, but what looks to be the Eames Hang-It All coat rack can be seen at the right hand side of the screen when Bond and Moneypenny enters Q’s flat. It looks to be the black with walnut hooks variant.
An AJ Table Lamp inspired lamp: As spotted and mentioned over at jamesbondlifestyle.com, a table lamp very similar to the AJ Table Lamp can be seen in Q’s flat. What separates this from the real one designed by Danish designer Arne Jacobsen is the base of the lamp, which is quite different. The AJ Table Lamp base is much thicker, and does not have that bend this table lamp has at the back. The AJ Table Lamp is one of my personal favourites, and I recently bought one for myself after having saved up for it for a looooong time.
Arne Jacobsen coffee Pot: As Nomi sits down while talking to Moneypenny at her office, we can see the Arne Jacobsen coffee Pot by Stelton, part of the Cylinda Line hollowware range from 1967.
Panthella Floor Lamp: It's placed all the way at the back, so it's difficult to be sure, but it looks like Madeleine has decorated the cabin with the Panthella Floor Lamp, designed by Verner Panton in 1971, and produced by Louis Poulsen.
The Falcon chair: The iconic Falcon Chair (also known as Falcon First or Falcon Phoenix depending if it's the version with buttons or seams in the back cushion) can be seen in the cabin at the start of NTTD. Designed by Sigurd Ressell in 1971, it was originally produced (and in 2017 relaunched) by Vatne Møbler, but is now made by Hjelle. The chair seen in the film looks to be the lowback, buttoned back cushion version with a wood frame. The Falcon Chair models from Hjelle are made with metal or steel frames.
I really want to own one of these chairs one day, but as with any designer furniture, they're very expensive – unless you happen to find a used, vintage one for a good price.
The Hunter Chair: I'm not to familiar with this chair, so I might be wrong about the chair seen in the cabin at the start of the film, but it looks like there's a highback version of Torbjørn Afdal's Hunter Chair (the 1967 version) in the living room area, standing next to the Falcon Chair.
There's another chair from the cabin I'm trying to find more information about, but 've had no luck so far. It has a similar design to a few other vintage Norwegian chairs I've seen before, but it might be a more modern design.
Remmert at JB Lifestyle seems to agree with you about the Eames Hang-it-All.
Always meant to revive this thread, but it's been very difficult to find the time. Hope to post more stuff soon.
Ah, nice! I had a look at the JB Lifestyle site to see what they had found from NTTD, but I didn't catch their post on the Hang-it-All. Thanks!
This is just guesswork, but I wonder if the chair behind the desk in Madeleine's office in NTTD is an Eames office chair – perhaps the Eames aluminum Group Executive Chair? These chairs were first introduced in 1958, and are produced by Herman Miller.
There's also this one. I can't even be sure if it's indeed a chair, but it certainly looks like we're seeing what could be a chair with wooden slats in the bottom right corner of the screen when Bond's on the phone in the cabin. One series of chairs comes to mind looking at that shape, and that's the Scandia chairs, designed by Norwegian architect and designer Hans Brattrud. The first model of the collection, the Scandia Jr., was designed in 1957 and was first produced by Hove Møbler in 1960. Brattrud made more models the following years - all of which are still available, now produced by Fjordfiesta. Looking at number of slats and the height the chair might be, it's likely a Scandia Senior or Scandia Nett – if I'm correct in guessing that this is a chair, and indeed a Scandia chair.
Scandia Senior (here pictured with an optional headrest).
Scandia Nett
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-the-sets-of-the-new-james-bond-flick-no-time-to-die
That was a really great read. Thanks for sharing @ImpertinentGoon! :) In particular I found the comments on Bond's Jamaica home interesting:
Although I found the place to have some luxurious feel to it (it's Bond after all), it also did feel very much like a lived in place. The photos in the article are great; we clearly see the attention to detail in creating this place!
I hadn't noticed it until looking at the photos in this article, but we clearly see a butterfly style chair in the background when Bond and Nomi enters his Jamaica home:
There are a lot of chairs like this the market. Also known as the BKF chair or Hardoy chair, it was originally designed in 1938 by architects Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy. More information about the chair can be found in the Wikipedia article covering the chair.
I'd be all for that too. Your reference to it only featuring furniture and not humans brings to mind the following review of Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Anthony Burgess in The Listener:
"Two stories which, in their fascinated poring on things - guns, techniques, foodstuffs - remind us that it is the mastery of the world things rather than people that gives Fleming his peculiar literary niche."
I have to say I agree wholeheartedly with Burgess there, although I would add the coda that Fleming is also a masterful writer of the underwater world too, as Kingsley Amis pointed out. Fleming was indeed a masterfully descriptive writer and that's something I really miss in the work of other authors of genre fiction, such as Agatha Christie who focuses far more on plot and dialogue than descriptive passages. It's also largely missing in most of the work of the Bond continuation authors that followed Kingsley Amis. In fact I'd say the closest equivalence to Fleming is more with writers of literary fiction than the spy fiction genre generally throws up, some notable exceptions aside.
As for this thread, I would've participated sooner but I thought it was a generic thread for everyday furniture, which I can't say I'm keenly interested in.