Creating The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson’s latest movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is set in a gorgeous Eastern European hotel on the eve of World War II. Unfortunately you can't stay in this beautiful pink confection because the hotel doesn't exist. Set designer Adam Stockhausen created the miniature model we see in the movie.  National Geographic talks to him about creating the Grand Budapest Hotel and other sumptuous locations in the movie.

The Republic of Zubrowka, where the film is set, is a fictional country that takes its name from a Polish bison grass vodka.
Design group Watson/DG teamed up with Anderson to create Akademie Zubrowka, an interactive website that offers a made-up college course on the made-up country, called “The Republic of Zubrowka Before the War: a Central European Case Study of Social, Political and Cultural Upheaval.”