Bar Luce
Retro cafe recreating a nineteen-fifties Milanese bar, designed down to its pinball machines by a Hollywood filmmaker.
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This guide to Bar Luce at Fondazione Prada in Milan follows Wes Anderson's design of the cafe for his friend Miuccia Prada, built inside a former early-1900s distillery on the edge of the city. It traces how Anderson resisted treating the space like a movie set, instead drawing on 1950s and '60s Milanese cafe style with its veneered wood and pink and blue formica furniture. Behind the counter sits a vintage Faema machine, and a servers' mustache tradition dates back to the cafe's 2015 opening.
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