In her hit romcoms, the director’s sets were as popular as the films. Now trending on social media more than a decade after her last movie, her coveted look is back
n 2009, the film-maker Nancy Meyers was in an editing suite at Sony Pictures, fine-tuning the details of her next movie,. That morning, her focus was the back garden of Jane, a successful Santa Barbara baker played by Meryl Streep. The garden included an extensive lawn, a swing-seat and a French-style potager garden, where Jane could wander about gathering ripe tomatoes in a fetching wicker basket.
Although Meyers had a decade-long career by the time she made the Father of the Bride reboot in 1991, this was the film that established her trademark look. The home of the film’s central Banks family was a colonial-style house with a white picket fence, and an interior warmed by natural wood, cream walls and copper pans. It was a touch grander than the Vermont farmhouse of her previous film, Baby Boom, and its neutral colour palette was more pronounced.
For Jermyn, one of the defining components of this privileged Meyersian space is bowls of fruit. “Fruit that will never be eaten,” she adds. “It doesn’t seem possible that they’re there for the purposes of consumption.” Rather, the fruit bowl is there to signify abundance and freshness, and to bring colour, shape and ripe texture.
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