“We collected old bottles and our graphic designer created the labels, as you never know when there will be a close-up.” She also found the source material (eight autobiographical books under his real name, James Alfred Wight) to be a guideline for the period designs. The show starts in 1937, and while it’s set in rural Britain, enough period costume details are still there. “I went to the World of James Herriot Museum in Thirsk-built in his original house-for research,” Smith notes. The always delightful Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon. The house also features a pair of veterinarian offices. The scullery (kitchen), the nucleus of the home, is done in a classic farmhouse style with a large table and Belfast white porcelain sink. “Siegfried’s wife would have had input and we wanted to show how she would have decorated,” Smith explains. The resulting eight books sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and inspired multiple film and television adaptations, the latest being All Creatures Great and Small, the finale of which. Courtesy of Playground Television UK Ltd & all3media international / Photo: MATT SQUIREįor the family home, Smith and set decorators Sarah Forbes and Kaye Kent and assistant set decorators Dean Lee and James Gray shopped at charity, thrift, and antique shops for period pieces with an Arts and Crafts bent, such as the yellow antique bergère sofa with a wicker back. A private residence in Grassington was used for the exteriors of Skeldale House.
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