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were all hiding troves of theatrical books, plays, theatrical models and ephemera that needed another life—and needed out of our respective storage units. The result was a space cluttered and curated with bits of ourselves. Look carefully, and you will catch my grad school theatrical models of Don Juan, L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Richard the Third, along with a thousand books from all of us that have finally found a new home…for now. For Selena Gomez's character Mabel Mora, the brief was trickier because not much was known about her at the start of the process. I suspect the writers were still figuring her out as well. What little the team had to go on was based more on her family's past than Mabel's. We knew we wanted her apartment to be the closest to the original floor plan of the building. This was a nice counterpoint to Charles' cleaner, more modern lines, and Oliver's overdone moldings, panels, imported columns and stage. Her apartment was clearly to be as mysterious as she is, as Charles asks, "Who ARE you?" when he walks in for the first time. The metaphor extended to her character in the simplest of ways. She, like her apartment, is literally an enigmatic work in progress. In order to embrace this idea, we decided in a moment of madness to open up the walls to the original A. OLIVER'S STUDY ILLUSTRATION BY ALI KASHFI FROM A RHINO MODEL BY PETER DORSEY AND ALI. B. OLIVER'S LIVING ROOM. SET PHOTO. C. OLIVER'S HALLWAY WITH A GALLEY WALL OF POSTERS FROM HIS PAST THEATRICAL 'TRIUMPHS.' SET PHOTO. D. OLIVER'S STUDY. SET PHOTO. E. OLIVER'S LIVING ROOM. SET PHOTO. F. OLIVER'S FOYER. SET PHOTO. D E F