The drool-worthy midcentury structure in Seth Rogan’s ‘The Studio’

In case you’re a movie buff and have but to look at The Studio, clear your calendar instantly. The comedy-drama collection, which was launched in March 2025, stars Seth Rogen as Matt Remick, the pinnacle of a Hollywood studio struggling to steadiness company calls for together with his want to create high quality movies. Chaotically humorous, nail-bitingly embarrassing and razor-sharp in its satire of the movie business, The Studio has simply been renewed for a second season.

There’s additionally one thing for structure followers within the collection, which, past being brilliantly partaking, additionally appears exceptionally fashionable. On high of an eye-popping roster of movie star cameos (together with Martin Scorsese enjoying himself), The Studio options some architectural visitor stars, which we’ve compiled under.

The Continental Studios headquarters: impressed by Frank Lloyd Wright

The headquarters of Continental Studios, the movie studio of which Remick is in cost, is described within the collection as a ‘temple of cinema’ and attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright. It isn’t, actually, a Frank Lloyd Wright constructing, however a fictional one impressed by the architect’s Nineteen Twenties Mayan Revival interval fashion, full with the usage of concrete textile blocks, and designed by manufacturing designer Julie Berghoff for the Warner Bros lot.

John Lautner’s Carling Home: Matt Remick’s home

The Studio options the Foster Carling Home, inbuilt 1949 within the Hollywood Hills by John Lautner, an American architect who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was designed for the composer Foster Carling, and is the top of streamlined midcentury appeal, with an open-plan, hexagonal format (Carling requested this to accommodate his grand piano and social gatherings). The area age-feeling residence additionally options exterior partitions clad in redwood, a glass-walled indoor-outdoor pool, and a lounge wall that actually swings open to disclose 360-degree views of LA.

John Lautner’s Harvey Home: Patty Leigh’s home

The residence of Remick’s former boss and mentor, Patty Leigh, performed by Catherine O’Hara, can be filmed in a Lautner residence: the Harvey Home, inbuilt 1950 for industrialist Leo Harvey. Leigh welcomes her successor to her residence in episode one, ‘The Promotion’. The home is now owned by actress Kelly Lynch and writer-producer Mitch Glazer, who restored it in 1998 underneath the stewardship of Lautner Associates. The Harvey Home, thought of a masterpiece of midcentury design, encompasses a round picket courtyard, stone flooring and floor-to-ceiling glass.

John Lautner’s Silvertop (Reiner-Burchill Residence): featured in ‘The Oner’

The Reiner-Burchill Residence, also referred to as Silvertop, was constructed between 1956 and 1963, and is featured in The Studio in an episode the place visitor star Sarah Polley performs a director making an attempt to seize a steady monitoring shot. The constructing is a feat of design, positioned on a sloped terrain and fully glass-walled, which posed logistical challenges throughout filming. The collection’ cinematographer, Adam Newport-Berra, has mentioned that he quickly realised that his staff ‘had utterly penned [themselves] right into a nook, as a result of the home is all glass partitions, it’s not possible to cheat the time of day. And there’s no flat spots on the property… you have got nowhere to stage gear, nowhere to place individuals, nowhere to set cranes for lights’.