This Barbie likes to repurpose movie props.
Indeed, while designing her production company LuckyChap’s brand new Los Angeles office space, Margot Robbie took a few office chairs from the set of the blockbuster to use as the assistants’ desk chairs.
“The chairs are actually in the Barbie movie when you’re in the Mattel CEO office and all the Mattel guys are sitting around on the pink chairs,” the three-time Oscar nominee said in Architectural Digest’s May 27 episode of its Open Door series. “We just had them reupholstered, because at the end of the movie—I mean, they were quite expensive, actually—I was like, ‘Wait, what’s going to happen to these chairs?’”
So, Margot’s designer Scarlett Hessian took the $3,195 Saarinen armchairs—sat in by Will Ferrell and his fellow “Mattel execs” in the film—and reupholstered them from their formerly blush pink fabric into their new natural-toned orange-and-white checkered fabric.
As far as the rest of the inspiration for the LuckyChap offices, which Margot shares with her husband Tom Ackerley and their business partner Josey McNamara? The designer noted the trio did not want to be flashy.
