Dean Tavoularis’ grand designs

“Carnage” production designer Dean Tavoularis also helped create the look of some of the classics of 1970s cinema.

‘Carnage’

He designed a comfortable but lived-in Brooklyn apartment for Roman Polanski’s version of the dark stage comedy.

‘The Godfather Part II’

Tavoularis won an Oscar for his production design of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 classic, creating Sicily and New York in the early 1900s and Cuba and Lake Tahoe in the late 1950s.

‘Apocalypse Now’

For Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic, Tavoularis designed sets that included a French plantation and Col. Kurtz’s jungle command post.