These bars and cafés are permanent spaces designed by visual artists and filmmakers. Each location reflects the creator’s distinctive style through architecture, interior design, and atmosphere, offering a unique setting for food or drink.
1. Coffee Zingaro (Tokyo, Japan)
Takashi Murakami’s café in Nakano Broadway merges retro kissaten aesthetics with his iconic Superflat world. The space features vintage arcade machines, orb lights, and Murakami’s signature rainbow flowers on walls, tiles, and menu items. More than a shop, it’s a permanent Murakami microcosm.
Address: 2F Nakano Broadway, 5-52-15 Nakano, Nakano City, Tokyo 164-0001, Japan
2. Bar Luce (Milan, Italy)
Wes Anderson designed Bar Luce inside Fondazione Prada as a tribute to classic Milanese cafés. Pastel formica booths, pinball machines, terrazzo floors, and a faux glass-vaulted ceiling all echo his cinematic world. It’s playful, nostalgic, and perfectly symmetrical.
Address: Largo Isarco 2, 20139 Milan, Italy
3. The Walled Off Hotel Piano Bar (Bethlehem, Palestine)
Conceived by Banksy, this lounge space faces the West Bank barrier wall. Styled like a colonial British parlor, it’s filled with subversive art—angel statues in gas masks, security cameras mounted like hunting trophies, and original Banksy murals. Open to the public—even if you’re not staying at the hotel, it doubles as a political statement and cocktail bar.
Address: 182 Caritas Street, Bethlehem, Palestine
4. Silencio (Paris, France)
David Lynch designed this subterranean club as a physical extension of his films. Named after the dreamlike club in Mulholland Drive, Silencio is a surreal mix of black velvet, gold leaf, and mirrored walls. It’s part cinema, part bar, part art project—open to non-members after midnight.
Address: 142 Rue Montmartre, 75002 Paris, France
5. HR Giger Bar (Gruyères, Switzerland)
Step into H.R. Giger’s dark biomechanical universe. Located beside the Giger Museum, this bar is covered top to bottom in the Swiss artist’s signature alien motifs—arched skeletal ceilings, spine-like chairs, and fossil-textured walls. Designed by the artist himself, it feels like drinking inside a fossilized creature.
Address: Château St. Germain, Rue du Château 3, 1663 Gruyères, Switzerland
