Welcome to Bar Luce, a Milan bar designed by director Wes Anderson.
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"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," Anderson said of the design. "I tried to make it a bar I would want to spend my own non-fictional afternoons in."
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The bar is inside the new Fondazione Prada, an arts an culture complex owned by the fashion label.
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The design of Bar Luce echoes the architecture of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Here, a shot of the café in the Galleria from 1978.
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Anderson also took inspiration from the Italian Neorealism films, like Rocco e i suoi fratelli, written and directed by Luchino Visconti.
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Fondazione Prada, which opened on May 9, was designed by Rem Koolhaas's architecture firm OMA.
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The firm expanded a 1910's-era distillery into a cultural campus that can hold galleries, a kid's center, and Anderson's Bar Luce.
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"By introducing so many spatial variables, the complexity of the architecture will promote an unstable, open programming, where art and architecture will benefit from each other's challenges," Koolhaas said in a statement.
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The inaugural programming includes Serial Classic, an exhibition of classical sculptures that looks at how the ancient Romans imitated Greek art.
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An Introduction, the product of a dialogue between Miuccia Prada and curator Germano Celant, explores the relationship between the institutional and the personal.