It Looks Like a Scale Model In the Photo But is a Life-Size Movie Set!
Inside the Barbie Dreamhouse, a Fuchsia Fantasy Inspired by Palm Springs
Well, almost life-size. Barbie’s Dreamhouse for the upcoming Greta Gerwig live-action Barbie movie was intentionally built at 23% smaller than human scale. The architecturally ambitious goal was to make the actors seem big in the space but small overall.
It’s an interesting transformation of a well-known and much-loved toy scale model to a human size structure, with the intention of it seeming like a make-believe toy and real house at the same time – not an easy feat to pull off! Read the full Architectural Digest article and learn how the set designers did it. Barbie hits theaters July 21.
