Dania Saragovia is a production designer and architectural designer based in New York with a satellite studio in Barcelona. Her work is an on going exploration of color, texture and materials particularly inspired by fashion and art.
Saragovia highly values the creation process involved in each project- whether a set, a residence, a piece of furniture- for its potential to reveal and to engage the viewer. With a team of excellent fabricators, artisans and crew members, her work achieves a superior level of craftsmanship and precision.
In 2013 she designed her first film Learning to Drive, starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson. The film is quintessential of her expression: an Upper West Side single family brownstone and an immigrant basement in Queens are the two main sets of the film. The juxtaposition of the protagonists’ origins and cultures is made manifest through colors, textures and furnishings.
Saragovia’s vitality and hands-on approach can be equally devoted to designing a table as to a Baroque set.
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Education
Rhode Island School of Design Bachelor of Fine Arts & Bachelor of Architecture
SCI ARC Vico Morcote, Switzeralnd- Architecture Studios
Instituto Allende San Miguel de Allende, Mexico- Painting and Lithography Studios
Selected Commercials
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Toon Blast Verizon Heineken Airbnb Nike Secret Estée Lauder Autism PSA Avon Clairol Silenor Rembrandt |
Choice Hotels Volkswagen Samsung Gametap FX Rexona Miller Brewing Co Seat Leon MasterCard NYSE Phillips Pearle Optics Airbus |
Selected Music Videos
Shakira & Alejandro Sanz
Maggie Estep & Lou Reed
Lenny Kravitz
Jennifer Lopez
D’Angelo
Film
Learning to Drive Production Designer
Broad Green Pictures, Director Isabel Coixet
Official Selection
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015
Provincetown International Film Festival 2015
Audience Award
Toronto International Film Festival 2014
2nd place People’s Choice Award
Traverse City Film Festival 2015
2nd place Audience Award
La Divanée Production Designer
Short Film, Director Jessica Sofia Mitrani
Official Selection
International Film Festival of Oaxaca 2014
Marfa Film Festival 2014
Henry fool Assistant to Production Designer
True Fiction Pictures, Director Hal Hartley
Official Selection
Cannes Film Festival 1998
Best Screenplay
Copland Assistant to Production Designer
Miramax Films, Director James Mangold
Official Selection
Stockholm Film Festival 1997
Best Actor Sylvester Stallone
Illtown Scenic Painter
Shooting Gallery, Director Nick Gomez
Official Selection
Berlin International Film Festival 1997
New York Film Festival 1996
Toronto International Film Festival 1996
Selected Directors
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Tom Kuntz Marielle Heller Siri Bunford US Lance Acord Isabel Coixet Tim Brown Tim Piper Sara Marandi Joaquin Baca-Asay Jake Schreier Alison MacLean |
Jessica Sofia Mitrani Philippe Le Sourd Sophie Caretta Nacho Gayán Cleo Sullivan Pat Sherman Paul Arden Ralf Schmerberg Hype Williams Jaime De La Iguana Steve Buscemi Paul Hunter |
Selected Architecture & Furniture
Penthouse Gut Out Gut renovation and woodwork throughout of 1,500 square feet penthouse
Dress Up Chair Design and fabrication of prototype
Battery Bag Battery Conservancy Draw Up A Chair Competition
Blue Sofa Design and fabrication of 10’ blue sofa
Chelsea Loft Design and construction of Stacked Boxes and panel doors, painted mural
Tribeca Addition Design and construction of bedroom furniture
Soho Production Company Office Design and construction of 2,500 square feet office
Broadway Loft Gut Out Gut renovation of 4,000 square feet loft
Fifth Avenue Duplex Design and construction of furniture
Museum of Modern Art of Tallinn Estonia Design Competition & model making at Peter Lynch Architect
Museum of Science CosmoCaixa Barcelona Assisted Museum Director Jorge Wagensberg in drawing the conception for the Amazone, Last Paradise exhibition
Design studies for hands-on machine Ball with Memory demonstrating Newton’s first law presently incorporated in the Museum