Oscar’s lounge noir

A green “green room”? Not at this year’s Oscars. For the presenters’ backstage lounge, 15-time Academy Award production designers Roy and Dorothy Christopher have conjured up a black-and-white movie palace lobby emulating the 1930s to 1950s theater designs of S. Charles Lee. The room features posters of best-picture nominees, a mirror-paneled screen that can accommodate five primping celebs and a Deco Moderne fainting couch for the undernourished and overanxious. Guests can watch the pageantry on liquid crystal TVs -- or flip the pages of green room co-sponsor Architectural Digest’s annual “Hollywood at Home” issue, which has vintage home photos of 21 stars including cover girl Audrey Hepburn.

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No orange vest in sight

The do-it-yourself hardware store often called Home Cheapo has launched a trio of decor catalogs aimed for bigger budgets. The 10 Crescent Lane catalog, right, is surprisingly hip. Yves Delorme linens and Ruffoni copper cookware are offered alongside sleek teak bathtubs, crocodile-stamped leather consoles, Scandinavian country-kitchen hutches and mirrored Chinese Parsons tables. Home Depot’s Paces Trading Co. specializes in traditional, iron lighting fixtures and modern crystal and swirled-glass table lamps. On March 14, Home Depot Direct Outdoor Living goes in the mail to preferred customers. Not on the list? Go to www.10crescentlane.com or www.pacestradingcompany.com to request a catalog or shop online.

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And in this corner ...

That bad boy facing the wall isn’t having a timeout. It’s the Corner Lamp, created by Chilean Roberto Cardenas for the Swedish firm Design House Stockholm. Cardenas took a round floor lamp and cut the base and shade into 90-degree sections. The result: a why-didn’t-I-think-of-that fixture that brightens dark corners without taking up valuable square footage on the floor. The monochrome lamp almost disappears against white surfaces. A pair in opposite corners on the same wall makes a dramatic statement; four of them can be arranged in numerous configurations, including a theatrically large circle of light. The lamp is priced from $200 at Zipper in Los Angeles, (323) 951-0620, and Pomp Home in Culver City, (310) 287-9944, www.designhousestockholm.com.

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So English at Soho

At the Hollywood Hills Soho House, an Oscar-week-only outpost of the New York membership club, celebrities get English lessons with their gift bags. For the entry hall, London-born designer Amanda Masters and the British furniture company George Smith created a 21st century twist on the 16th century Tiplady Knole sofa, shown here in a papaya print linen. Most of the other furniture on loan to Soho House is leather. Says George Smith store manager Suma Lipari, “They do throw quite a few parties.” (310) 360-0880.