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Article: I Dream of Jeannie's Love Seat.(Mark Bennett makes blueprints of famous TV sets)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- March 1, 2001
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MARK BENNETT REDEFINES REALITY TV WITH HIS BLUEPRINTS OF FAMOUS SETS
IN 1985, MARK BENNETT COMPLETED a series of 53 blueprints featuring some of the best-known residential architecture in America. Among them were Ricky and Lucy Ricardo's cramped Manhattan apartment, Herman and Lily Munster's dilapidated mansion, and Ward and June Cleaver's two-story colonial. Imagine the hours of TV watching that made these drawings possible. As with John James Audubon's renderings of birds, the exactitude of Bennett's work stems from an abiding curiosity about, and close observation of, his subjects. In The Dick Van Dyke Show, for example, an ottoman appears just beyond the ...