Director Wes Anderson Designed a Kitschy-Chic Cafe in Milan — Look Inside!

“After many months, I finally convinced him,” Prada toldWmagazine. “And I was right, because this bar is not a normal place — it is an extension of Wes’ art.”

Anderson selected everything from the colors of the booths — pink, lime green and turquoise — to the songs playable on the bar’s jukebox.Wnotes that the few direct nods to Anderson’s film work is aLife Aquatic with Steve Zissou-themed pinball machine. Overall, the bar was designed to evoke Italian pop culture of the ’50s and ’60s.

Onthe bar’s website, Anderson explained how he envisioned the space.

“While I do think it would make a pretty good movie set, I think it would be an even better place to write a movie,” he said. “I tried to make it a bar I would want to spend my own non-fictional afternoons in.”

The bar opened May 9, and it’s just one part of Fondazione Prada, an arts and culture center that hosts gallery shows, screens films and even boasts a children’s center.

—Drew Mackie,@drewgmackie

source: people.com