Sofia Coppola’s Bedrooms

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 INTERIORS [Sofia Coppola’s Bedrooms]( The director’s new Archive is a showcase for these little temples — or little cells. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and MACK Sofia Coppola makes bedroom movies. The Lisbon sisters inhabit a teen-girl fever dream inside a suffocating house in The Virgin Suicides, and Lost in Translation has Bob and Charlotte in bed at the Park Hyatt Tokyo when something like the film’s emotional core reveals itself (he tells her that life gets easier, but that it also doesn’t). The queen’s bed in Marie Antoinette is her cage at the zoo of Versailles, and, in Somewhere, Johnny’s never-ending stay in room 59 at the Chateau Marmont is his isolation, decadence, and failures as a father cast in rich velvets. In other words: Coppola’s bedrooms are central to how her characters understand themselves and other people — whether the rooms are little temples, or little cells, or some combination of the two. And she takes the same care with them regardless, which becomes clear paging through Archive, a collection of the ephemera and influences behind her films. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [A Brooklyn Café That Said No More Influencers Dae, a Carroll Gardens café and home-goods shop, has taken the drastic step of banning photos and videos.]( By Clio Chang [This Week’s Worth-it New York City Listings It seems like all of Park Avenue is on the market.]( By Nora DeLigter [How Not to Get Bedbugs From Everyone Returning From Paris Fashion Week An exterminator recommends heated luggage, bedbug-sniffing dogs, and prayer.]( By Clio Chang [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved