Deuce
Palm Beach, Florida 2025

There is, of course, a tennis picture from the mid 1970s that adorned the walls of many a teenager’s home or a student’s frat house. Its popularity was not just its cheekiness, but also its simplicity. This was the era of Bjorn Borg and Chris Evert and the sport was very much on the rise in the public’s consciousness. It was the start of an era in which tennis landed an integral role within popular culture and the stars themselves often became sex symbols. Tennis was sexy.

When filming our Palm Beach series, I had been given access to a beautiful home on North Country Drive just north of The Breakers. The property faced the Atlantic and the vast verdant lawns stretching to the beach were of Wimbledon standard. Towering palm trees soared to the sky breaking the symmetry and offered a definite sense of place. This was very clearly the ocean front of Palm Beach; a stretch of land emphatically known for the good things in life. It was a property that offered a complete visual overload.

I saw an opportunity to borrow from that famous old tennis picture and then impose a Palm Beach narrative. The 1970s styling was quite straightforward, but the concept required some wind to lift the tennis player’s skirt in the manner I was hoping for. In time we had our chance and everything else just fell into place.