The Rooms Are the Draw in the New Sense & Sensibility

Francesca Di Mottola, production designer on the latest screen version of Sense & Sensibility, has walked through how her department built the film's interiors. By her account the effort went into texture, surface against surface, until each setting carries real material weight on camera. Anyone who spends Sunday afternoons touring houses for sale will recognize the instinct, since a room with depth of material holds the eye longer than one with a single good piece. Her remarks came in a conversation with Veranda, where she laid out the working methods her team relied on to get there.

With reporting from Veranda.