Dante Ferretti, Francesa LoSchivo and Maria Garcia at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Behind us are lion sculptures Signore Ferretti designed for the 65th annual Venice Film Festival. |
Signore Ferretti recently won his third Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2012), on which Signora Lo Schiavo “dressed” the sets.
Production designers are members of a movie’s principal crew, which includes the director, costume designer, cinematographer and film editor. They are responsible for all aspects of a motion picture’s design, and supervise the construction of sets and alterations to the film’s locations. The task of the set decorator is to choose and place furniture, draperies, and other objects on the set or location under the supervision of the production designer. In Hugo, for instance, Signora Lo Schiavo’s work may be seen in the delightful arrangement of books in the train station’s library, or in the choice of flowers for the flower seller’s carts, as well as in their positioning inside that built set.
More information on the MoMA tribute to Signore Ferretti may be found here: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1415.