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With their expert blend of factual and faux, the production design team for “Palm Royale” made a very believable make-believe world. That world is 1969 Palm Beach, the setting for the Apple TV+ comedy about the lengths the high-society set will go to preserve power and status. Starring Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin, Laura Dern and Carol Burnett as grande dame Norma Dellacorte, the series plunges into a world of vast wealth and intrigue.

Beginning in early 2022, production designer Jon Carlos led a Los Angeles-based team including set decorator Ellen Reede that conjured opulent mansions, a pristine country club, elaborate galas and even the Apollo space capsule. Awards Clothing early feminists, social climbers and coma patients is all in a day’s work for costume designer Alix Friedberg May 29, 2024 “We set some fundamental rules for ourselves in terms of design,” Carlos said. The teams assigned color palettes for each character and an aesthetic divide between earthy West Palm Beach and glittery Palm Beach.



“In Palm Beach, all colors were very luxurious and rich but muted so the women stood forward,” Carlos said. “That was an intimate collaboration with our costume designer, Alix Friedberg. Every single costume and set we discussed in insane depth.

For instance, if a character sat in a chair, we knew that the chair matched or complemented what that character was wearing.” They even calibrated the stripes on upholstery so it wouldn’t detract from characters and .

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