The spaceship throneroom From Dune:
Reverend Mother Ramallo (Silvana Mangano, L) and Emperor Shaddam IV (José Ferrer, R), from Dune (1984) (Source)
And still another screen capture (Source)The most obvious similarity between the set design and art direction for Dune and the Großes Schauspielhaus is the use of stalactite forms.
Pölzig's interior to the Schauspielhaus:
(Source)For those of you who keep track on these types of things, Dune's production designer was Anthony (Tony) Masters, who also worked on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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Tracking stalactite columns - you probably know that these both might have developed independently from a common ancestor: the Lions Court at the Alhambra:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/harleycat/474371035/
... and of course further back from there into the depths of islamic architecture ...
The Alhambra? What Frank Herbert novel is that from?
:)
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