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severance: a closer look into the mid-century, brutalist, and retro-futuristic universe of lumon
- Severance Season 2 explores a retro-futuristic world combining mid-century modernism, brutalist aesthetics, and futuristic technology to create an unsettling environment at Lumon Industries.
- The show uses design as a psychological tool, warping mid-century architecture into a mechanism of control and incorporating minimalist industrial designs by Dieter Rams.
- Architectural settings in Severance, like Lumon Industries and various residences, reflect diverging narratives through timber and glass elements, creating contrasting atmospheres.
- Furniture pieces by Dieter Rams and other designers contribute to Lumon's clinical aesthetic, emphasizing corporate sterility and hyper-controlled environments.
- The color palette, material choices, typography, and branding within Lumon play essential roles in storytelling, reflecting hypnotic sterility and corporate bureaucracy.
- Even art in Lumon serves as a tool of psychological control, echoing Soviet-era propaganda and corporate motivational aesthetics to foster a sense of unity and devotion among employees.
- Outside of Lumon, art offers contrasting roles, hinting at unease and fragility, such as the unsettling painting 'Agnello Clown' in Burt and Fields' kitchen.
- Severance's exploration of mid-century modernism, brutalist corporate aesthetics, and retro-futuristic technology through design creates a visually captivating and psychologically intriguing world.
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