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papering, and re-dressing the section to reflect an earlier period during which the scene took place. One of the movie's main sets, the legendary apartment the Bernsteins lived in at the Dakota from 1975 until Lenny's death, was entirely recreated on a sound stage (no one has ever been permitted to shoot in the actual building despite the fact that it's been home to legendary artists and performers for decades: Lauren Bacall, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Roberta Flack, to name a few). My team was fortunate enough to be given access to the actual former Bernstein apartment in order to document certain architectural details, the floor plan, scale of the rooms, the dimensions of the windows, and the details of the moldings. We used this set to introduce color into the movie, as well as a sense of opulence, privilege and wealth, which by this point in our story, Bernstein had achieved. Despite the spaces' grandeur, we still wanted the rooms to feel bohemian and cultured as opposed to pretentious or nouveau riche. We recreated the light fixtures, A B C D E