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T H E G R E A T | P E R S P E C T I V E 3 5 to suggest a party had unraveled into chaos the night before. This is something I could relate to as I had myself trained as a theatre designer. Looking back, I'm not sure we stuck to the less is more' rule, possibly rather the opposite! The pilot for the show, designed by ave uinn and decorated by Stella Fox, had been shot mainly on locations around the . hen I came on board to design the series, there were strong aspects of the pilot that I wanted to carry through, and yet a whole world still to be created from scratch. ithout a specific brief as to how the palace should look, I pretty much had complete freedom to explore ideas and have fun with the creative process. I hadn't previously had the chance to work on huge set builds, so that was certainly a challenge I was excited about. I needed to find the tone for the show, invent our own unique world. The writing had such a specific A. PALACE CHAPEL. CORONATION SCENE. SET BUILD AT 3 MILLS STUDIOS. ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLA SICIGNANO. B. PALACE CHAPEL, CORONATION ALTAR CONCEPT ELEVATION. BY CAMILLA SICIGNANO. language, so the spaces created needed to be lavish enough to be believable as a royal palace, but with some elements slightly offkilter, borderline kitsch or ust not quite right. My starting point was visual referencing. I immersed myself in research, looking for inspiration in period paintings and collating a visual dictionary of pictures of palaces from all over Europe. I started archiving images from Instagram feeds and Pinterest, but mainly going back to my collection of interior design and architecture books. Soon, I had assembled such a vast number of references that I felt visually overloaded and had to step away from it all. owever, once I started organizing my pictures into folders and working on mood boards for the different characters' apartments, my process, and what had been guiding it, began making sense and the design for the overall show started taking shape. B