Gallery: Kitschy Bar Designed by Wes Anderson Is Kitschy as Hell

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    Bar Luce

    Welcome to Bar Luce, a Milan bar designed by Wes Anderson.
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    Fondazione Prada-Bas Princen-1

    The bar opens this Saturday, May 9. It's inside the new Fondazione Prada, an arts and culture complex owned by the fashion label.
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    Fondazione Prada-Bas Princen-4

    Rem Koolhaas's architecture firm OMA 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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    Milan

    The design of Bar Luce echoes the architecture of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Here, a shot of the cafe in the Galleria from 1978.
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    On the set of Rocco e i suoi fratelli

    Anderson also took inspiration from Italian Neorealism films, like *Rocco e i suoi fratelli*, written and directed by Luchino Visconti.
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