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deco-inspired pillars of light and glowing lines to accentuate the architectural form. I employed the use of colour LED tape so that at a press of a button, the set could change from day, to sunset, to night. At the end of season one, the crew counted up how much LED light tape had been used on all the sets; over seven miles. Conference Room My design concept for the conference room on board Avenue 5 was that Herman Judd fancied having a room made from one felled tree…so his interior designer had a huge tree located deep in an ancient forest and chopped down and sculpted by computer lathes into the beautiful organic shape seen in the series. In fact, the room was carved by hand by human sculpting teams, then plastered and painted by amazing Scenic Artists. To really sell the point that the room was made from one single tree, I over-scaled the grain by three times its natural size to clearly read on camera. I am delighted how this set finished up, it's one of my favourites of the fifty-eight sets seen in the first season. Judd's Quarters I gave Herman Judd the most over-the-top and outrageous private quarters. I positioned this at the front of the ship, with an enormous window looking out into space ahead. I liked the idea that he employs a team of interior designers who cannot agree on anything, so all the styling is a mix-up between classical, art deco, Mayan, Egyptian and ultra-modern. They build huge gold bas relief portraits of him for the ship…but not of himmore how they think he sees himself. A. JUDD CONFERENCE ROOM DESIGNED TO LOOK AS IF CARVED FROM THE CENTRE OF A HUGE TREE. HAND CARVED FROM POLYSTYRENE, PLASTERED AND PAINTED BY JOHNNY ROBERTS. SET PHOTO. B. JUDD CONFERENCE ROOM. PHOTO BY ALEX BAILEY/HBO. C. JUDD'S QUARTERS. EVERY ITEM BESPOKE TO HERMAN JUDD WITH A PECULIAR MIX OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURAL STYLES. SET PHOTO. A B C