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As befitting a second-generation Italian American East Coast home, the interior of the suburban Soprano home is traditional all the way with provincial furnishings and grey palette overlays. Cranky, put-upon matriarch Livia (played by Vera Farmiga) “wouldn’t be flashy and yet not completely stodgy in her interior decorating taste,” Shaw says. “I’d describe her as kind of safe.” When choosing decor, he, screenwriter/creator David Chase, and director Alan Taylor had just one mandate: No plastic slip-coverings. “It’s been done, done, and done!”

The Sopranos greet baby Christopher Moltisanti in their home circa the early 1970s. Much of the furniture, appliances and decor for the set piece were sourced through Northern New Jersey Craigslist ads, yard sales, and thrift stores.

Photo: Barry Wetcher

After looking through his mother’s wedding album, Shaw decided that patterned wallpaper throughout the dining room would be the most effective way to establish the period. Vintage coverings were sourced from Hannah’s Treasures. “We put it up and toned it down many times because we didn’t want it to become a character in the scene,” Shaw says. For the dining room set, Graves made sure the table featured a needle-lace cutwork embroidery cloth “like the one my one grandmother had,” she says. She found one through a seller on Facebook Marketplace, along with the china, glassware, and cabinets.

The Sopranos kitchen features printed wallpaper in a neutral palette: “It looks very much what my Italian relatives in south Philadelphia would have had in their home,” Shaw says.

Photo: Barry Wetcher

In Livia’s kitchen—where she shares a fleeting maternal moment with teen son Tony (played by Michael Gandolfini, son of the late actor James Gandolfini, who starred on the original show)—“we upgraded her look to something more Mod,” Graves says. The “Brady Bunch-style” round table, complete with green vinyl-swivel buck seats, was purchased from an eBay vendor. Meanwhile, for the bedroom that Livia shares with her husband Johnny, the team leafed through old Sears catalogues to pick out drapery and old-stock wallpaper. (Alas, the scene didn’t make the final cut!)

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Outside the Sopranos home, fans will surely recognize a few notable local haunts that look a bit less worse for wear. The team rebuilt the backroom of Satriale’s Pork Store in Kearney, New Jersey, “to have far fewer layers of clutter and [real] tablecloths instead of plastic,” Shaw says. (The rationale: The Jersey gang had only just started convening on the premises.) And that infamous ice cream parlor where Tony may have consumed his last onion ring? That’s Holsten’s Confectionery in Bloomfield, New Jersey—and viewers will get a chance to visit the scene of the (potential) crime as Tony knew it when he was young. The team used old photos of the place to date it with exterior awnings and window dressings.

The faces may look a little different in the back of Satriale’s Pork Store—yes, that’s a young Uncle Junior in the center!—but one constant remains unchanged. “We kept the taxidermy,” Shaw says.

Photo: Barry Wetcher

Back in the present, Shaw is thrilled that he received closure on his The Sopranos tenure. “This movie is like when you hear grandparents tell you about the old days—and then you get to go back and see it,” he says. If there’s another chapter in the family lore, he’s ready: “Working with David Chase is not out of my system. I know he always comes up with something unexpected, so if he had more to say about The Sopranos, I’d be on board.” Hey, don’t stop believin’.

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