When Stanley Kubrick rolled the The glowThe filmmaker never imagined that the film would end up leaving an unexpected shine twice. On the one hand, the film rose as a jewel of the genre of terror. At the same time, interior decoration with the thorough care of the art direction also raised in pop culture that included the one that can be labeled from the most famous decorative piece of Hollywood: The carpet of The glow.
The iconic carpet, attributed to Interior designer David Hicksin lighting orange and red tones with a hexagons pattern is as remembered as the appearance of twin gloomy, the unfortunate to walk from Jack Nicholson and of course, the route of little Danny Torrance on his tricycle in one of the corridors of the Overlook Hotel.
The creation of the famous carpet of the tape «The Glow» is attributed to interior designer David Hicks.Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Kubrick and the film director of the film, Roy Walker did a thorough search until they found the locations and elements such as Frank Lloyd Wright's work that would recreate with high fidelity what Stephen King had been reflected in the homonymous novel. In his walk they ran into the creation of Hicks, a British interior designer who copied the circles of the United Kingdom Royal House (married Lady Pamela Pamela Mountbatten, cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh) and even carried out projects for the Middle East monarchies.
Who was David Hicks, the interior designer of the carpet of «El Blammandor»?
David Hicks, the interior designer who conquered the eliteS, stood out for his work that mixed patterns, inspiration in antiquity and contemporary references capable of creating environments that broke with British traditionalism. The interior designer born in 1929 was not afraid to use colors and strident textures that mixed with all kinds of furniture, light sources and with their own designs of tapestries, textiles and carpetsmany of them created especially for elites. «Mixing the old with the new,» he had as mantra.
His approach to the creation of environments was so reckless that Lord John Cholmondeley, a young aristocrat close to Isabel II, hired Hicks to take away the boring the old halls. The interior designer put to work and scored everything of orange, turning that into a giant «Hermés» box, according to the book «David Hicks in Colour».