After our days of staring at the sea, Osterlen's interior vistas, dotted with farms, castles and cottages — all shaded by towering beech trees — were too stunning to ignore.
The designer collaborated with the architects Eero Saarinen and Kevin Roche, and the landscape designer Dan Kiley, to create broad, interior vistas and living spaces with four distinct, color-sensitive seasons of furnishings, including rugs, draperies, upholsteries, and storage units.
Each vista, interior or exterior, is a foreign land to be crossed, with safe passage far from certain.
Look eastwards and this could easily be the American interior, the sprawling vista a muted, colourised version of the Last Picture Show's Texas.
The basketball stadium in Rabat was used as the U.S. embassy in Jordan: a CIA office set was built inside the stadium, favoured because its design allowed the cameras to shoot both interior and exterior vistas, thus showing the characters looking out on people and tanks passing in the streets.
But the dominant visual element of the interior is the view outside afforded by the glass, a vista rural or urban as the case may be.
Mirrors and interior windows offer unexpected vistas and give the illusion of greater space.
The curved roof's lattice of structural supports and the lines of the interior halls create startling vistas of glass, wood, chrome and sky wherever you stand.
Opened last fall, the bayside restaurant is already winning over the city's chicest set with its stylish white interiors, stellar waterfront vistas and fine Levantine dishes.
Filming at Edwards Air Force Base began in mid-April, and ended on May 2. Exterior shots of Stark's home were digitally added to footage of Point Dume in Malibu, while the interior was built at Playa Vista, where Favreau and Riva aimed to make Stark's home look less futuristic and more "grease monkey".
