The film sets of Wes Anderson’s new movie “Isle of Dogs” are showcased in an exhibition in London. This is how the director imagines Japan in 20 years. The city Wes Anderson imagined as the setting for “Isle of Dogs” arrived at The Store X on the Strand, together with its authoritarian mayor Kobayashi. He’s the one who decided to exile the dogs on Trash Island, which is displayed at the exhibition with all its trash.
There are 17 locations from the movie that became real with this exhibition, curated by Anderson himself. The precise architectural work behind it successfully recreated every single detail of the metropolis, even the plants inside the houses. There’s even a bar with wooden panels serving sake.
Everything is hand-sculpted and hand-painted on resin.
Many of the buildings from “Isle of Dogs”, as it often happens, are inspired by real architecture. For example, North Brother Island, an abandoned hospital for tuberculosis patients in the outskirts of New York, became the “animal experimentation structure”. Another source of inspiration is St. Peter seminar in Scotland, whose round recesses are found in many interiors.
Among Wes Anderson’s movie sets, the Noodle Bar was recreated in a 1:1 scale. Here, visitors can taste traditional Japanese ramen by famous chef Akira Shimizu (from restaurant Soho’s Engawa) and drink his sakè.
The exhibition, organised by The Store X and Fox Searchlight Pictures, is open until the 5th of April 2018.
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