About

Portrait of Leticia Marie Holtz on location — Leticia Marie Holtz — Production Designer

Production Design & Fabrication

I build the rooms a story has already been living in.

My work started in interior design — reading how people actually occupy a space, what they leave on the counter, which chair carries the wear. Production design asked the same questions of characters instead of clients, and the answers turned out to be the same ones: a room tells you who has been in it long before anybody speaks.

Since then I've dressed practical locations, built sets, and fabricated and repaired props for narrative and commercial projects across the borderland. Most of what ends up on camera is sourced by hand — weekends spent driving the Lower Valley, estate sales, salvage yards, the back rooms of shops that don't have websites. The rest gets built.

I work at every scale, from a single dressed corner to an entire world, and I design for narrative weight first and visual impact second — though the two rarely disagree.

Gallery

Leticia Marie Holtz leaning over a cinema camera on a tripod, one arm extended to block a shot across a dressed living room with deep green walls, a stained-glass window, a framed sunflower print and rust velvet curtains — Fig. 01 — blocking a shot in the dressed living room

Leticia Marie Holtz seated at a dining table cutting into a fabric swatch book, rolls of wallpaper and textile samples stacked beside her, monstera leaves and a diamond-pane stained-glass window behind — Fig. 02 — pulling fabric and wallpaper for a room

Leticia Marie Holtz holding a length of wallpaper against a hallway wall in low evening light, checking the colour beside a brass bulb sconce, two small framed prints and a leaded stained-glass window — Fig. 03 — testing a wallpaper drop against the wall

Leticia Marie Holtz standing behind a round worktable of hand tools in a half-finished room, pale blue wainscot panelling taped out on the wall behind her and a circular saw on the bare wood floor — Fig. 04 — mid-build, panelling taped out

Leticia Marie Holtz painting the muntins of a tall multi-pane window by hand, brush in one hand and the other steadying the frame, in a bright room with freshly taped panelling — Fig. 05 — hand-painting the window trim

Leticia Marie Holtz pausing over a worktable of miter boxes, a spirit level, a tape measure and a utility knife, folding her glasses as she reads the trim layout in front of a set of French doors — Fig. 06 — squaring up the trim layout