Note logos of the verticals on the wall. Graphic: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix The Netflix series Inventing Anna is in large part about the reporting process of the article on which it is based — Jessica Pressler’s 2018 piece about Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Delvey, a woman who pretended to be a German heiress and scammed many wealthy New Yorkers in the process.
A Genuine Office Experience Instead of using a soundstage, Inventing Anna rented out a floor of an office building from Durst in midtown on 44th Street. “It was a great deal for Durst, because they wanted a short-term contract,” Dunn said. Using an actual office space gave production one large connected area to film within, and allowed them to use the actual views outside the windows as background for scenes.
Inspired by New York The show is set back before New York was acquired by our new papa, Vox Media, and the office in the series is based on our old home in Soho rather than our current space in the Financial District. The show’s producers toured that old space and took elements for their iteration: As New York did, the Manhattan offices have a big red wall with the magazine’s logo written across it.
The Cover Stars Like a typical magazine office, the Manhattan space is filled with posters of Manhattan covers, all of which closely resemble actual New York covers in both form and content. “We tried to boil down the essence of what makes the look of New York what it is,” Dunn said. “And the types of stories that are covered.
Graphic: Dustin Neiderman and Adi Slepack. Graphic: Dustin Neiderman and Adi Slepack. Graphic: Dustin Neiderman and Adi Slepack. Graphic: Dustin Neiderman and Adi Slepack. Desk Design Inventing Anna’s set decorator, George DeTitta Jr., gave each section of the fake offices its own character.
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So if you have a real Anna why not the real New York Mag and a real Vulture- why the pseudonyms?