Some very exciting news came our way a couple weeks ago when we were visited unexpectedly by the very lovely and talented Kathryn Peters, who is a set designer based in L.A. She’s here in Atlanta filming a pilot for a new TV series called “Necessary Roughness.”
Callie Thorne plays tough, sexy Long Island divorcee, Danielle Santino, who, to make ends meet, becomes the therapist for a professional football team and quickly becomes sought after by other athletes, musicians, politicians and those living in the spotlight. (www.deadline.com)
If you don’t live around here, you may not know that the state of Georgia offers quite a hefty tax rebate to production companies when they film here, so we natives are becoming increasingly used to seeing film crews here, there and everywhere these days.
Brookhaven, an Atlanta intown neighborhood, has been ground zero for filming lately. This adorable house had a starring role in the recent “Life As We Know It,” starring Katherine Heigl. (this house is actually for sale and is listed at http://cathyboston.harrynorman.com/)
Anyway, the pilot is being filmed virtually across the street from one of us so we caught on immediately when Ms. Peters explained her mission.
She was in the process of creating the “home” for the lead character, a feisty Long-Islandy type of therapist who works with professional athletes. She explained to us that the character has had her house “done” by a designer, but her fiery Italian independence means that the certain spots in the interiors definitely show her passion and love of life: color, color and more color. Ms. Peters was in need of artwork for the house and could we be of help?
We knew the house in question – and there is no doubt that it is truly a beautiful, tasteful home full of gorgeous furnishings and an elegant, sophisticated flair to it. Kathryn agreed with all of the above, but in this case, the character rules: out with monochromatics and in with the color! So, we gave her a pad of paper and a pen and plenty of time to browse…and before we knew it, Ms. Peters had chosen a vibrant, lively collection of paintings for her “client.”
Here are some of the pieces Ms. Peters chose right off the bat for her character:
Onyeka Ibe’s “Tuscan Heights II”
Heidi Kirschner, “Cashmere Mist”
Jim Richards, “Real Lemons” (this one ended up in the character’s kitchen)
Nancy Franke’s “Just Me.”
We got to pop over to the house the day before Thanksgiving to see how our babies looked in the house. The crew was frantically putting it all together and our babies were placed, but not hung yet:
We’re dying to see how it all came together and will be glued to the tube when this pilot airs.
The whole exercise did get us thinking. What if the wonderful Nancy Meyers or Beth Rubino had called us for a helping hand in the set decoration for Something’s Gotta Give (a Huffington fave) or It’s Complicated (ditto) or the rom-com, Holiday? We had fun imagining the results…stay tuned!
In the meantime, we’ll be glued to the TV waiting for our paintings’ screen debut.
Ta ta…
M.
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