I just recently caught the trailer for the upcoming release of Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky [watch it here]. While my interest isn’t as high as it would have been if Coco Before Chanel hadn’t been so recent, it still piques my interest because of the inclusion of Stravinsky.
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and The Firebird amazing pieces, and the actor portraying Igor intrigues me. It’s Mads Mikkelsen, from Quantum of Solace fame. He’s a wonderful actor otherwise, but not much else is really widely known to at least moderate movie geeks.
But anyway, the trailer had something for less than a second that really made me do a double take. Right around the 1:15 mark, there’s an illumination of a beautiful window. This window not only beautiful, but its design impacted me many years ago. I have an Art Nouveau book detailing examples of that style in terms of architecture and interiors throughout Europe. This one particular piece hit me hard enough that I decided to jump into learning Adobe Illustrator, which I didn’t know much of at the time to see if I could reproduce parts of the design a la vector (and that was pre-live-trace for all those in the know).
The window was crafted by Auguste Perret in the 1911-1913 range. It’s located in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. I’ve never seen it in person, but this reminded me that I should make a point of it next time I’m in Paris.
Not sure if this is enough for me to see this in the theater, but it probably wouldn’t show here anyway. I will get it on the Netflix at the very least, hopefully in Blu-Ray. It was just interesting to see an obscure image from a formative period in my design past unexpectedly pop up in a trailer like that.