The Great Gatsby

This past week in Interior design we watched my favorite movie, The Great Gatsby. The movie is very beautiful, bright, and glamorous. In class we were to design a room or mood board that had the themes of The Great Gatsby and all it's glam. Our "client" is obsessed with The Great Gatsby, and we have to style rooms to the theme, and not the exact sets.

For my first room I tried to capture the felling of the Gatsby House's style. I used a lot of gold because it brings out an expensive feeling. Gatsby had a lot of money, so all of the gold represents this. In this

creation I used the shiny materials in my decorating that this blog said was a Gatsby theme. The same blog informed me that a chandelier is a perfect choice of lighting. It states that it adds more glam, which is the Gatsby theme. I stayed true to the Art Deco syle of the 20's by using an Art Deco wallpaper, flooring, and coffee table. I also noticed while looking at different scenes from the movie that a lot of their set ups were very symmetrical. I tried to capture this feeling in this room, and below I have examples of the symmetry.

Gatsby's Room:

The Buchanan's White Room:

My second creation is a simple, but romantic and shiny room. I tried to give this room a more feminine feeling because I feel it brings out more of the glam. I also used mirrored furniture and fixtures to bring out a polished, and clean feeling. In this piece I also feel I used more Art Deco decor than the one before. For color in this room I stayed closer to the Monotone Gatsby color scheme by using whites, and light colors. The "pop" of color in this room is the black accents I have added. If you watch The Great Gatsby they have many pops of color to make things more bold, and exciting.

The Great Gatsby is exciting, artsy, and of course GLAMOROUS!!! For this reason I put in shiny, colorful, and exciting objects to bring out the Gatsby in each room.