Bar Luce
Bar · Vigentino
L.go Isarco, 2, 20139 Milano MI, Italy
Highlights
Cafe designed by Wes Anderson, serving sandwiches, cakes & drinks
Cafe designed by Wes Anderson, serving sandwiches, cakes & drinks
"Housed in a former gin distillery, Bar Luce, at the entrance to the grounds of the Prada Foundation, is just as much of a destination as the art museum itself. It’s designed by Wes Anderson, and the candy-pastel café delivers as much on the food and drinks as it does on style. Play Sophia Loren’s "Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo" on the jukebox and feel confident that any photo you take here will look good on Instagram. While many visitors head to Bar Luce for its cocktails, coffee, or pastries (including a viral pink marzipan vanilla sponge cake), the under-the-radar standout is the huge selection of pressed panini." - elizabeth de filippo jones
"Housed in a former gin distillery, Bar Luce, at the entrance to the grounds of the Prada Foundation, is just as much of a destination as the art museum itself. It’s designed by Wes Anderson, and the candy-pastel café delivers as much on the food and drinks as it does on style. Play Sophia Loren’s "Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo" on the jukebox and feel confident that any photo you take here will look good on Instagram. While many visitors head to Bar Luce for its cocktails, coffee, or pastries (including a viral pink marzipan vanilla sponge cake), the under-the-radar standout is the huge selection of pressed panini." - Elizabeth De Filippo-Jones
"The area is now full of whimsical spaces, like Bar Luce."
"Inspired by the classic bars of Milan in the 1950s and 60s, the Bar Luce café is entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson, in that unique Wes Andersonian way. When Fondazione Prada in Milan was opened, the director was invited to design a coffee bar inside the building. Based on strong pastel colors, vintage wallpaper patterns, and quirky details, every square inch exudes the whimsical atmosphere of a Wes Anderson film. The furniture and decor is also an homage to the typical midcentury Milanese café design, while the ceiling recalls the vaulted glass roof of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. Anderson has said the place was conceived as a bar where he would want to spend his afternoon, and where writers can go to be inspired. Despite his well-known maniacal sense of symmetry, the place is designed asymmetrical to be “lived” by the visitors in any space and any point of view, without a dominant perspective. There are some references to Anderson’s movies, too, such as the Steve Zissou and Castello Cavalcanti pinball machines." - ATLAS_OBSCURA
"Inspired by the classic bars of Milan in the 1950s and 60s, the Bar Luce café is entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson, in that unique Wes Andersonian way. When Fondazione Prada in Milan was opened, the director was invited to design a coffee bar inside the building. Based on strong pastel colors, vintage wallpaper patterns, and quirky details, every square inch exudes the whimsical atmosphere of a Wes Anderson film. The furniture and decor is also an homage to the typical midcentury Milanese café design, while the ceiling recalls the vaulted glass roof of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. Anderson has said the place was conceived as a bar where he would want to spend his afternoon, and where writers can go to be inspired. Despite his well-known maniacal sense of symmetry, the place is designed asymmetrical to be “lived” by the visitors in any space and any point of view, without a dominant perspective. There are some references to Anderson’s movies, too, such as the Steve Zissou and Castello Cavalcanti pinball machines." - ATLAS_OBSCURA
