A coming attraction

OF the posse of decorators who have come to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, riding in with truckloads of contemporary lounge furnishings to promote their designs and to give a Hollywood gussy-up to authentically rustic Park City, none has been busier than Barclay Butera.

Among his projects is a customized Airstream International CCD Bambi, a 19-foot metal trailer he recently purchased for about $40,000 from the same Irvine dealership where, he says, Matthew McConaughey and Julia Roberts bought theirs. It is a smaller version of the 28-foot trailer featured prominently as the residence of Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd on the ABC hit “Grey’s Anatomy.”

“The Airstream is a timeless piece of American design, a stainless-steel cocktail shaker on wheels,” says Butera, 39. “So I turned the interior into the kind of hip lounge that young filmmakers and actors would love to have on location.”

The designer’s $15,000 in upgrades include black and white striped exterior canopy and window treatments, leopard print ‘carpeting, custom leather banquette cushions, linens with a Greek key pattern, and hand-beaded red velvet pillows.

Mixed with factory-standard stainless steel-ceilings and charcoal gray, wood-patterned laminate counters, Butera’s design scheme has a Rat Pack nightclub vibe -- 1950s kitsch dressed in 2006 glitz -- that transforms the stark efficiency of the standard Airstream into a rolling boutique hotel room. “It’s a very intimate space,” he says of the 125-square-foot interior. “And if you’re going to spend time in such small quarters, you want it to feel comfortable.”

-- David A. Keeps