Set Decorators

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We supply set decorators who dress sets and locations for features, commercials and series shooting in Turkey. Our team places decorators who work under the production designer and art director to select, source and place furniture, drapes, rugs, artwork and the layered detail that makes a space feel lived-in. Because Turkish shoots move between Ottoman period interiors and today's settings so often, the decorators we engage keep strong relationships with Istanbul prop houses, antique dealers and the city's furnishing trade, and are used at dressing both grand epic interiors and naturalistic today's rooms. They manage the decoration budget in Turkish lira, handle scene matching across the shoot, and schedule against the up-to-30% cash rebates where a project qualifies.

Here is how the picture comes together. Turkey's set-decoration resources are deep because the 'dizi' industry — the country is the world's second-largest exporter of television series after the United States — has run period and today's shoots steady for decades. Historical epics such as 'Magnificent Century' and 'Resurrection: Ertuğrul' filled prop houses with researched Ottoman and Seljuk furnishings, textiles and decorative objects, while today's series and Netflix originals like 'The Protector' keep today's stock today's. Istanbul's antique markets, carpet trade and craft workshops give decorators access to genuine period material, and global shoots filming in the city have drawn on this base. The favourable Turkish lira keeps decoration sourcing strongly cost-competitive for visiting shoots.