Netflix’s Sirens Filming Locations, Starring Meghann Fahy and Julianne Moore

John Paino has mastered the look of the coastal elite. Because the manufacturing designer for Large Little Lies, he made the present’s model of Monterey lust-worthy, regardless of the homicide and mayhem. Now, in Sirens, premiering on Netflix right now, he brings his eager eye to an equally luxe seashore group on the alternative coast. Certainly, Sirens’s unnamed island vacation spot (primarily a Nantucket-Martha’s Winery hybrid), does really feel like a direct descendent of Large Little Lies, however upon nearer look, there’s one thing completely different, stranger, and virtually surreal to the brand new sequence and its areas. Assume: birds, cavernous hallways, and Greek mythological motifs.

The present follows Devon (Meghann Fahy) as she tries to persuade her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) to go away this upscale seashore city over the past days of summer season. Simone has been unreachable for months, working for the mysterious billionaire Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore), who’s married to a scion of an previous New England household, Peter Kell (Kevin Bacon).

Fahy and Alcock in Sirens

The surroundings is marked by a way of conformity that wavers between humorous and terrifying; Paino emphasizes that “sameness,” as an alert to one thing presumably lurking beneath. “It’s the veneer of wealth that covers everything,” he tells ELLE Decor, “everything is clean and everything is the best, top of the line model, even in the guest house and staff quarters.”

Over the course of the sequence, in no small half because of the set design, Devon begins to marvel if cultish forces are afoot on this supposed fantasyland. To create this eerie feeling, Paino and his group introduced in the most costly kitchen home equipment, curated suffocatingly organized closets, and designed overly manicured gardens to create a way of perfectionism that bordered on overbearing. Sure, there are nonetheless the basic hydrangeas, wicker baskets, and lengthy sandy seashores—however these motifs stand out for his or her absurdity fairly than their magnificence.

The manufacturing and set design groups spent two months scouring New Jersey and Lengthy Island for places. They ultimately discovered the right home in Northport, Lengthy Island. It was massive, however it wanted to be greater—the group constructed extensions to the house. The lengthy sandy stroll, nonetheless, which forged members run up and all the way down to each comedic and scary impact, was already in place.

“It’s the biggest thing [physically] set wise, I’ve done,” Paino says, “We were really having fun with the scale of things, with this big 60-feet foyer.”

Under, Paino tells ELLE Decor extra about this advanced endeavor, and factors to the references and design components that make up the world of Sirens.

Of the planning course of, Paino notes, “I had two months, which was great. We had to really make a house and find a location. We were shooting in the summer, so right off the bat, we weren’t going to go to Nantucket. When people buy a house out there, they want to use it.”

The Northport home “wasn’t as large as we needed, and we built heavily, but it already had an incredible cliff.” The ensuing Kell home, Paino notes, “has all the colonial classical trappings of a house in the Cape, but when you go inside, it’s not exactly like The Shining hotel; there’s a strangeness.” For the Kell home, Paino’s group added pergolas and a turret. “We brought it up to what Molly said was an ‘oligarch-like house,’” Paino says.

The inside decor closely references the Kell household’s background, their relationship with the island, and with whaling, along with Michaela’s love of birds—there’s a one-of-a-kind bird-covered chandelier.

The home’s artwork is extra trendy, with numerous museum high quality items, together with portraits of Michaela and Peter Kell that appear like they have been carried out by Alex Katz. Of Michaela’s curatorial type, Paino notes, “I think she would like it like a showcase, so she chose the most expensive artists; beyond the Katz portraits, there are references to Damien Hirst and the like.”

One of many sequence’ most obvious design particulars is the huge anchor sunken into the entrance of the home, a reminder of the household’s possession within the island, and their historical past there. Paino notes, “Since the family comes from old whaling money, it’s possible that a whaling ship would have an anchor of that size, and it’s conceivable that Micaela would have had a giant anchor in the front yard.”

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Dorothy Scarborough (she/her) is the assistant to the Editor in Chief of City & Nation and Elle Decor.