Severance Interior Design: The Eagan Family Home
Filming Location: The Taghkanic House (1999), New York
Set Decorator: David Schlesinger
Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
Prop Master: Cat Miller
Stills: Apple TV+
Episode: Season 2 - Episode 9, ‘The After Hours’
The interiors of Severance are thoughtfully designed, each space revealing details about the characters who inhabit them. In Season 2, Episode 9 ‘The After Hours’, the Eagan family home marks a clear departure from the warmer, more familiar environments of Devon and Ricken or Burt and Irving. This is part three in a four-part series where I visually breakdown the key furniture pieces that define the spaces in Severance.
The Eagan family home reveals the mindset of Lumon’s leadership through its design. Filmed at The Taghkanic House (1999) in upstate New York, the interiors were adapted for filming, with white wall-to-wall carpet laid throughout to neutralise the space and provide a backdrop for curated furniture.
Designed by architect Thomas Phifer in 1999, the house is known for its long, linear forms, expansive glazing, and minimalist detailing. Set decorator David Schlesinger embraced the space using pieces from Todd Merrill Studio and John Pomp Studios that are both striking and cold.
Below, a closer look at the furniture and objects shaping the space:
Image credit: Apple TV+
Daniel and Co. English Porcelain Plate (1860)
19th century plate showing two figures, one red, one blue, restraining a third. A literal depiction of control, hierarchy, and the inherited ideology that governs Lumon.
From Seidenberg Antiques, part of a set valued at £53,000:
“signed by Louis Eugene Sieffert, c. 1880, for A.B. Daniell & Son, Wigmore Street, London. Within a turquoise ground border, finely embellished with panels of floral swags and scrolls in a tooled gilt border.”
Reed & Barton Silversmith (1872)
One of the few 19th century items in the house. Dated just seven years after Lumon’s founding in 1865.
John Pomp Studios Rift Table and Chair
Heavy, sculptural forms using a ‘severed’ piece of glass and polished finishes.
Tala Aluminium Egg Wedger (1950s)
Stark, mechanical and surgical. It mirrors Helena’s methodical way of cutting eggs and Lumon’s obsession with control.
Maarten Vrolijk, Ceramic Blooming Terra Lamps (2023)
“His bombastic ceramic vessels and ceramic lamps have a distinct aliveness as a result of Vrolijk’s mastery of impulse and intuition. Heavily scored and expressively painted, each has a particular personality that is, at once, playful and defiant.” - Todd Merrill Studio
Hannes Grebin, Cozy Chair (2018)
Bespoke design for Todd Merrill Custom Originals:
“living sculptures, which puts the traditional views about comfort and taste into question.” The “dad’s chair” is a wing back style that dates back centuries has been re-analyzed, broken down and reassembled into Grebin’s “Cozy Chair.” - Todd Merrill Studio
Erin Sullivan, Bubble Side Table (2015)
Studio Anansi, Trigono Console Table (2023)
Studio Anansi, founded by Evan Jerry in 2018, reintroduces Afrocentric elements into contemporary design.
Christophe Côme, Tall Triscota Cabinet (2014)
Made of wrought iron and glass - part industrial, part ornamental.
Sunshine Thacker, Gammagroove Chair (2022)
Architect and designer Sunshine Thacker took cues from Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Tjitske Strom, Handtufted Tapestry, ‘Zebra & Ostrich’ (2022)
Christophe Côme, ‘Triscota’ floor lamp (2003)