"Monochrome style crops up again inside Thee Stork Club, the music venue and bar opening in Oakland in July, with one section of the space enveloped in a blood-red design and a green room that will be an actual green room. Already, ties have been made to all things camp, thanks to Stork Club co-owner Marc Ribak’s friendship with film director John Waters, who is known for his camp and trash sensibilities. Ribak runs the annual Mosswood Meltdown music festival Waters hosts, and Ribak says he and wife Amy Carver’s style for Thee Stork Club is partly inspired by how they run Mosswood. “I have a similar approach to the design of the club as we do the design at the concerts in the park: It is really whimsical and everything’s done over-the-top and outrageous,” Ribak says. “It’s just about having a wow factor. It’s almost like, why do people go to places like Egypt or New York or Las Vegas or Hearst Castle or Madonna Inn? People go to these places because they’re places of intrigue.”" - Dianne de Guzman
