How The Penguin's Production Designer Created Her Gotham

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Q&A [How The Penguin’s Production Designer Created Her Gotham]( The Penguin sleeps in a Diamond District vault, the Falcones have a Long Island mansion, and everything is loosely 1970s inspired. Photo: HBO HBO’s new show [The Penguin]( centers on a charming hustler from 2022’s [The Batman](, played by Colin Farrell. The show picks up where the movie ended, with waters receding from a flooded, half-destroyed Gotham. Curbed spoke to production designer [Kalina Ivanov]( — who worked on [The Silence of the Lambs](, [Lovecraft Country](, and [The Boys in the Boat]( — about creating her own, 1970s-inspired take on Gotham. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Donald Judd’s Everlasting Influence Colin King, Nick Poe, and Landon Brown talk about the artist’s impact on their work.]( By Ian Volner [A Frank Lloyd Wright Homage in Chappaqua Plus, a four-bedroom Catskills A-frame cabin renovated by a food critic.]( By Clio Chang [Ikea’s New Secondhand Shop Looks a Lot Like Facebook Marketplace A closer look at the company’s “Preowned” concept.]( By Lindy Segal [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved