Digital marketplace HomeAdvisor has imagined what would happen if filmmaker Wes Anderson designed sets for The Simpsons TV show. Rose Dykins reports
A team of designers at digital home improvement project HomeAdvisor has given memorable locations from The Simpsons a revamp in the style of blockbuster film maker Wes Anderson (known for hits including The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom).
HomeAdvisor has modelled the interiors in this way to show how people can create a “chic-yet-personal appeal” when it comes to interior design.
“The interiors of The Simpsons are as familiar as our own homes,” reads HomeAdvisor’s website. “Just like Homer and Marge, homeowners add random bits and bobs over the years, patching things up as they go along. Our rooms become more individual but less stylish with each new addition.
Director Wes Anderson’s styling of spaces in his films reflects the lives of the characters who live there. As seen in the dwellings of characters in The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson’s signature aesthetic style combines minimalist and maximalist design styles to capture the “randomness” of how characters live, and how it imprints on their surroundings. At the same time, each space is carefully curated to appear eclectic, yet stylish.
For example, HomeAdvisor has taken The Simpsons’ garish kitchen and captured its vibrancy by using a shade of “Fondant Fancy Pink”, as featured in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Meanwhile, Lisa Simpson’s pink bedroom has received a Tenenbaum-inspired makeover to inspire the character’s creativity, with basic furnishings upgraded to vintage pieces.
Other Simpsons locations that have been given the Wes Anderson treatment include Moe’s Tavern, The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Sector 7-G and Mr Burns’s office.
Wes Anderson’s unique aesthetic also holds particular appeal, as can be seen from the @accidentallywesanderson Instagram account with 1.2 million followers, which shares pictures of real places around the world that look as if they could have featured in one of the director’s films.
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