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My photographs are an attempt to offer a glimpse inside North Korea, revealing Pyongyang to be a place of candy-coloured apartment buildings and pastel-hued interiors - a series of precisely composed stage sets that could be straight out of a Wes Anderson movie. Kim [Jong-un] is deadly serious about transforming the Hermit Kingdom into a kitsch pastel-colored fantasy world.

My photographs are an attempt to offer a glimpse inside North Korea, revealing Pyongyang to be a place of candy-coloured apartment buildings and pastel-hued interiors-a series of precisely composed stage sets that could be straight out of a Wes Anderson movie. Kim [Jong-un] is deadly serious about transforming the Hermit Kingdom into a kitsch, pastel-colored fantasy world.

A fascinating photographic tour of North Korea's colourful and bizarre interiors which resemble Wes Anderson movie sets.

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Oliver Wainwright is the architecture and design critic at The Guardian. Trained as an architect, he worked for OMA in Rotterdam and for the Mayor of London’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit. He is a regular visiting lecturer at a number of architecture schools, including Harvard, Yale, and the Architectural Association. He has written extensively on architecture and design, and has served as curatorial advisor to the Architecture Foundation in London. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are regularly used to illustrate his articles. Julius Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now! and Record Covers series, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.

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