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influential architects of the time. Two architects, in particular, became important to the show's look. The first was William Pereira, who started as an Art Director in the 1940s and only became an architect in 1950. He has designed many important buildings in the Greater Los Angeles area. Quite a few of his buildings are well-known to the film community, but that didn't stop us from using them. Locations tend to look very different in every show. Some of our scouts became "architecture-lovers tours." One of the sets the series created in the Union Oil Building was the beauty parlor in episode five. This scene already takes place in the 1980s, and my inspiration was the design of the early Vidal Sassoon shops. The production used the Dorothy Chandler Penthouse on top of the old LA Times Building and turned it into a drug lord's residence. Our guideline was that the more expensive, the better; the impressionist and English school paintings and expensive materials such as crocodile leather tops. We built two atriums to house snakes. These atriums are two full-size glass cubicles integrated into the façade and they do change the existing structure of the room. The living room was more than one thousand square feet and I wanted to break it down into the sitting and office areas. One of the atriums is right behind the sofa and is used for long dialogue scenes. The snake in the glass cubicle comes up right behind the head of the actor and gives the scene an eerie vibe, which represents Griselda's fear. The Dora Hutchinson House, aka Frank Sinatra's house, was also designed by William Pereira in the very early years of his career as an architect. BAR ELEVATOR 73'-0" 20'-0" 15'-6" 32'-9" 30'-5" SOFA BOOKCASE TABLE BOOKCASE TABLE SIDEBOARD TABLE SCULPTURE WILD EMERALD SET NAME: LOCATION: DRAWN BY: DATE/TIME: SCALE: SET#: EPISODE: GM INT. AMILCAR APARTMENT 1/8" = 1'-0" 103 102 LA TIMES, 202 W. 1ST ST, 90012 05 JAN 22 D A B E C A. & B. AMILCAR'S PENTHOUSE. GLASS TERRARIUMS BUILT INTO LOCATION. SET PHOTO. C. AMILCAR'S PENTHOUSE. SHOT IN THE OLD LA TIMES BUILDING. FLOOR PLAN DRAWN IN VECTORWORKS BY GARY MCMONNIES.