“Last year some of my work was used on the set for The I.T Crowd (C4) and this year they’ve asked if I’d like to work with them again. Here’s what I’ve come up with…” - illustrator Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy. (Ghosts)

For a more in-depth look into the set decor of the IT basement, check out this cool interactive map with hotspots for all the different props and artwork that artists submitted.

Above: Large Reception Room of Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan

The walls of Saito’s quarters at the beginning scenes of the movie Inception bear a striking resemblance to these paintings…To make a long story short, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu dubiously usurped power (and eventually gave rise to a shogunal government lasting 2 centuries). Unsurprisingly, he had a pretty Draconian and paranoid way of ruling. The architecture and imagery of Nijo Castle reinforces his social control. His main audience hall (Great Hall) has different levels – he’s raised up on a higher platform to show his higher status. Everyone else is on a lower platform, with people in his inner circle closest to him and betrayers relegated to the back. 

 The shimmering gold walls and intricate lacquered ceiling shows Tokugawa’s wealth. The pines show longevity – this is a clear message to any haters that Tokugawa’s regime was here to stay.

I loved Margo’s leaping zebra wallpaper in The Royal Tenenbaums. The wallpaper was created for Gino’s restaurant in New York City and has since been revived by Scalamandre, famous for producing fabrics for Hearst Castle and the White House. No clue on how expensive it is, probably very. 

“Wes had every lampshade, every object in the [Dahl] house photographed. And they had little miniatures made of them. God, what a team they had. The first time I went I just burst into tears.” - Felicity Dahl, Roald Dahl’s wife for the Fantastic Mr. Fox featurette.