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Last year’s space was designed by AD100 talent Madeline Stuart as an elegant Art Deco–style space inspired by Hollywood’s most glamorous era, the 1930s, and legendary MGM art director and set designer Cedric Gibbons.
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AD100 interior designer Waldo Fernandez was inspired by the iconic of Hollywood decorator Billy Haines. The space included a library with entirely hand-painted book jackets that feature images from the AMPAS archives, including Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 and Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.
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Interior designer Michael S. Smith was inspired by the 1930s and ’40s when creating his 2011 greenroom design, because it was a period of time, he says, that “really established what we think of as Hollywood glamour.” He conceived a luxe and tailored library setting, complete with a sophisticated color palette, wood-paneled walls, a gold-leafed ceiling, and comfortable furnishings.
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Roger Thomas designed the 2010 greenroom around a custom paint-splattered floor. He says he imagined that this “would have been how the floor looked when they were painting the sets of my favorite movies.”
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Stephen Shadley is a scenic artist turned interior designer to movie stars such as Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Jennifer Aniston. Using a photographic backdrop of the Los Angeles skyline as the focal point in his 2009 Architectural Digest Greenroom design, Shadley created a lounge area reminiscent of a chic 1970s modern home with a panoramic view of the city from the Hollywood Hills.
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George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, and Johnny Depp were among the guests in the 2008 greenroom, designed by Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Co. He was inspired by Draper’s original sketches for the Beverly Hills Hotel and her 1940s design of the Arrowhead Springs Resort, which was a choice destination among movie stars and industry tycoons of that era. “I wanted to recall the Golden Age of Hollywood, where a mix of white satin, fringes, mirrors, leather tufting, and crystal were all components,” Varney says.
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With the help of Global Green USA and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Matthew White and Frank Webb, of White Webb, designed a truly “green” greenroom: The furniture was made of sustainably harvested wood, the carpeting was fashioned out of recycled plastic bottles, and the wall covering was crafted of renewable mother-of-pearl. The space was an eco-friendly (albeit glamorous) respite for Hollywood celebrities.
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In 2006, veteran art director for the Academy Awards® telecast Roy Christopher and his wife, Dorothy, transformed the greenroom into an intimate yet luxe lobby of a fantasy movie theater in honor of S. Charles Lee, the prolific designer of legendary theaters.
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The previous year, Dorothy and Roy Christopher infused the space with a deep red, black, and gold color palette to create a dramatic and theatrical yet comfortable setting. It was designed to “look like a set by interior design legend Dorothy Draper for a movie starring Diana Vreeland,” said Roy.
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Roy Christopher has had much experience designing sets for such TV hits as Frasier, Murphy Brown, Wings, and Growing Pains over the years. The set he and Dorothy created for the 2004 greenroom was a contemporary take on the Hollywood Regency style.
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Dorothy and Roy Christopher described their design for the first official Architectural Digest Greenroom as “a tip of the hat to the glamorous settings from Hollywood’s Golden Age.” With a sleekness associated with the Art Deco era, the room matched the elegance of the stars that filled the space that evening.