Furniture & Architecture magazine took a look at Mattel’s dream dollhouse to reveal the details of the set design for the season’s most anticipated film.
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All achievements relative to the movie BarbieGreta Gerwig film set to debut in Italian cinemas next 21 Julywhich ultimately dramatically increases the public’s interest in the project, prompting them to look for more and more details about this pop blockbuster set in phantasmagoric world and, to put it mildly, monochrome.
The main source of movie spoilers is Architectural Digest which he published dream home picturesliterally the dream home of a Mattel doll. Panoramic and close-ups of the blonde doll’s house have gone viral and have already left fans excited.
A set inspired by the Palm Beach aesthetic.
Frames published architectural digestsThe first film to appreciate bombastic set design without being distracted by the characters/actors, showcases the hard work of the set design duo, brought in by Gerwig to bring his fantasies ofBarbie universe what the director imagines – and not mistakenly – Ideal.
Sarah Greenwood AND Kathy Spencerwho have jobs like Pride and Prejudice 2006, for which they were nominated for an Oscar, they relied heavily onaesthetics of happy places and vacationers like Palm Beach at a particular moment in history: the mid-twentieth century, when you could still find places to retreat to enjoy a healthy and luxurious vacation.
Modernist inspiration without losing sight of the design, and (more than) a pinch of healthy madness, because Gerwig’s set, rebuilt at Warner Bros. near London, everything reproduces the real world created by Mattel for their iconic doll, from proportions down to the smallest detail.
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Production designers who bought real Mattel toys to study their proportions noticed that interiors and exteriors are usually designed with smaller proportions than the dolls, causing the latter to be large for the interiors but small for the rest of the script. Therefore, the overall impression is always alienatingone fiction which is also emphasized by the use backgrounds in toy style brightly colored.
Height multiplies, room by room, room by room, where everything is designed to be funny and fun, crowded shimmery and cute elements but most of all fuchsia pink. The iconic shade of pink traditionally associated with the Mattel doll universe visually dominates the scene, creating an absolutely welcome joyous effect that will be familiar to the eyes of anyone who has ever played with Barbie, as well as those who have never had one.
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