Designing Amazon’s Hedda: Production Designer Cara Brower on Reimagining Ibsen

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How do you take Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play Hedda Gabler and turn it into a 1950s English pressure cooker for Amazon’s Prime Video? In this episode of Decorating Pages, Emmy-winning set decorator Kim Wannop talks with Production Designer Cara Brower about designing Hedda, the new Amazon MGM Studios film directed by Nia DaCosta and starring Tessa Thompson—now streaming on Prime Video. Cara shares how she: Scouted close to 200 UK country estates to find one location that could hold Hedda’s entire world—grand staircase, great room, library, Victorian kitchen, ballroom, and a lake with a direct sightline back to the house Collaborated with set decorator Stella Fox to mix Italianate architecture with Art Deco furniture, David Hicks–inspired color, and daring modern art, creating a home that feels timeless, decadent, and a little dangerous Designed Hedda’s bedroom as a cold, sensual boudoir that reflects her power and isolation Helped engineer the film’s show-stopping glass chandelier gag in t...