The sitting room setee – this would be the couch Claudia positioned the poisoned boys on
the piano in the back of the parlor – in the film it was angled differently with the windows to the back but in the same back corner of the parlor
Dinner setting in the kitchen adjacent to the courtyard
the duo desk in the parlor that Lestat threw himself upon following the poisoning
2nd floor desk/library – likely would have been Louis’ domain
the vanity table in Lestats room
Lestat’s bed – note the dramatic canopy
Louis’s bed – note how much simpler/no frills it is
Claudia’s bedroom (sorry for the angle, it was closed off for renovations). She had her own bed with a mini canopy, a sitting area with 2 chairs and a table, and 2 floor length windows to the balcony.
the desk in Louis’ room – it was next to a floor length window which opened up to the balcony that he shared with Claudia (they could open the window and walk out onto the balcony together)
A handful of my photos from The Gallier house AKA Rue Royale.
This is the French Quarter home that Anne Rice based Louis Lestat and Claudia’s home on, and I had chills walking through the entire building. Much love to @i-want-my-iwtv for making me aware of the location. It was fantastic to visit.
I have captioned each photo with where/how they played into the series, based on my interpretation, the floor plan, and where things were angled in the film. If you want to see anymore of the photos I took/the explanations behind them, send me a message and I will make you another set.
Little fun fact about the house – everything green you see here (including the front of the house/the balcony railings) was originally dyed/painted with a color called Paris Green, that was primarily made of arsenic. The homes often killed their occupants within 10 years of arsenic poisoning, but for a bunch of vampires, it was perfectly fine.
(You can see Louis’ bedroom chair and table through the door in this gif!)
Excellent report post, @stardustchild. Lovely pic set ❤
SINCE I was just discussing this w/ someone last night, and noticed I hadn’t mentioned it before… (and btw most of the above pics are from http://www.hansonhouse.com/taylor.htm)
Taylor Hanson from the 90′s is part of my headcanon for Lestat *u*
Yes, I know, he’s too old now. I KNOW. But one of my fave fic writers had used him as a face claim (they had cropped that first pic for their avatar) and the way they wrote him, the vulnerability, tenderness, the way he behaved, it was so perfectly meshed with how young Taylor looked and idk it just aligned perfectly for me. Lestat was only ~20 when he was turned ;A; and Taylor is like, right at that transition where the adult features are starting to take hold but the boyishness is still there, too. Taylor’s appearance is definitely in mind when I write my Lestat. I look at that first pic and I see a young man lost in his own music, drinking up the attention from the audience, loving the heat of the spotlights on him, his band supporting him, it’s just so touching and I love it.
Let me admit here that I liked MMMBop as a song! But was not a HANSON fan beyond that. The fact is that Taylor can/could sing, and play guitar, and looking the way he looked, I buy it.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so I’m not trying to sell this vision to anyone else, but I’m sharing it anyway bc thinking about it makes me happy ❤
Happy birthday Taylor
Right, 3/14 is his birthday! Happy birthday Taylor!
can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept
Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”
I think this really an important post.
We’ve fallen into such a rut of “everything is right or wrong, no inbetween” that stuff that’s merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.
this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you
I-want-my-IWTV 