The filming location for the record shop scene was the basement of London’s amazing Chelsea Drugstore, a striking three story travertine and brushed steel building designed by architect Antony Cloughley and designer Colin Golding of GCB Associates. Minimalist poster inspired by the colour palette of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ The record store in A Clockwork Orange is no exception, but with a darker undertone. You generally encounter interesting people in these places and conversations can be struck up quite easily. Together, we’ve designed many of the record sleeves that sit in these shelves.Ī record store condenses all forms of culture and counter-culture into one perfect space. Who doesn’t love a traditional record shop? I’ve been ‘guided’ into hundreds of vinyl stores from London to Bridport, and from Berlin to LA, Tokyo, Mexico City and everything in-between over the years by Paul West, my partner in life and business, and although I’m not quite as much of vinyl junkie as he, I do love the atmosphere of record shops and all that potential sitting inside all the catalogued record racks. The Record shop Alex enters the record shop in A Clockwork Orange The production design by John Barry is well worthy of scrutiny and after bringing you my analysis of the Korova Milk Bar, ‘HOME’ (Mr and Mrs Alexander’s House), and Alex’s bedroom and parents flat in Part One, I now invite you take a good look around the Record Shop, CatLady’s house and The Ludvico Medical Facility where the thuggish teenager Alex is subjected to radical brainwashing techniques designed to make him ‘good’. Set in a near-future Britain and based on the book of the same name by Anthony Burgess, the film was adapted, produced and directed by the one and only, Stanley Kubrick.Įxaggerated, electrifying and exuberant at every turn, A Clockwork Orange brings us hyper-stylised film sets, vivid costumes, distinctive music by transgender composer Walter (later Wendy) Carlos, unusual use of language ( a mix of English, Russian and slang called Nadsat invented by Burgess) and an unforgettable villain-antihero in the form of Alex DeLarge played by Malcolm McDowell. To mark the 50 th anniversary of the film’s UK release on 13 th January 1972 (following the December 1971 premiere in USA), we present Part Two of our investigation into A Clockwork Orange film sets, furniture and décor details (see Part One he re ) and the roles they play in telling a provocative story. Half a century on, A Clockwork Orange remains a source of controversy and discussion despite being largely embargoed for nearly three of those five decades. The filmsets and furniture of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “A real horrorshow” Part 2
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