Luca Guadagnino Is Coming for Your Living Room

Have you ever wanted to live inside a Luca Guadagnino film? Did you envision yourself snuggling up in William Lee’s richly hued, midcentury Mexico City apartment in Queer or the historically layered New Haven abode of Julia Roberts’s Alma in After the Hunt? Now, Zara is giving you the chance to live out your dreams.

While you can’t sneak onto a Guadagnino set, you can now shop a collection created by the director and his production designer Stefano Baisi. The two created over 200 pieces across categories for the Baisi Guadagnino collection, including both clothing and furniture, offering a full, carefully curated world to indulge in.

In addition to his work as a director, Guadagnino has pursued a side career in design. In 2017, after he was asked to design and decorate a Lake Como villa, Guadagnino created his design studio, Studio Luca Guadagnino. Since then, he has furnished and curated multiple private homes, retail spaces, and hotels. In 2024, he acted as the art director for the Venice design exhibition Homo Faber.

It was during that first project back in 2017 when Guadagnino met Baisi. They began working together on Studio Luca Guadagnino projects until the director asked Baisi to join his 2024 film, Queer, as the production designer. The partnership continued on last year’s After the Hunt, as well as the upcoming OpenAI tale Artificial.

When creating Baisi Guadagnino for Zara Home, both men drew on their many architectural, artistic, and cinematic inspirations. The result is a core set of furniture, welcoming with its sumptuous fabrics and woods, rounded edges, and undulating silhouettes. “It’s about bending an otherwise rigid structure to create something sensual,” Guadagnino told Financial Times.

And while much of the collection is decadent—comprised of luxe velvet sofas with scalloped edges and tomato-red woven leather chairs—there are still moments of simplicity. A stainless steel chair and matching stool, for example, or a square coffee table with an emerald lacquered finish.

In addition to furniture, there are lamps, candlestick holders, and waste baskets in the collection. Painted ceramics will upgrade your table settings, especially when placed alongside the collection’s minimalist, stainless steel cutlery on top of linen tablecloths and placemats.

Guadagnino and Baisi have considered every aspect of the home, and even beyond. In addition to the furniture, decor, and tableware is a selection of ready-to-wear pieces designed by the duo. Creating the apparel required just as much thought as the home goods. Again, the inspirations were plentiful, ranging from Belgium’s “sensitivity of color,” according to the collection’s press release, to Japan’s “intelligence of volume and silhouette.” It is a retro-adjacent wardrobe with some obvious ’70s influence, which, for the most part, lives outside the confines of gendered dressing.

With Baisi Guadagnino for Zara Home, the creatives are outfitting an entire life. As with one of their films, they have designed a fully formed world, one that anyone can indulge in through full, three-dimensional pleasure. Guadagnino is hopeful customers will fully dive in. “I would love to see people on the street wearing our clothes to observe how they put things together,” he said. “I’d also like to go to someone’s house to see how they juxtapose the lamps, couches, chairs, and tables with other things...Maybe there’s someone who would like to be dressed by Baisi Guadagnino and live in a house by Baisi Guadagnino. I’d like to know that person.”

Baisi Guadagnino for Zara Home launches on September 26 in stores and on zarahome.com. The collection will be presented during a special pop-up on September 26 and 27 during Milan Fashion Week at La Pelota, Milan.