58 posts categorized "Berlin Design & Handmade"
Make your own sunshine
... for where else will you find it? Popping out saturated fluorescent-red petals and slotting them into their stems, the perfect start to a late winter morning. Find these exquisite tulips and more by Berlin-based cut&make at R.S.V.P. and elsewhere,......
Studio visit: Wednesday Paper Works
The second courtyard is loud with saws whirring from the ground-floor workshop. Up the dusty stairs, a tiny sign hangs on the metal door. Wednesday Paper Works' studio is a light-filled Fabriketage with white brick walls, into which they moved......
Some buttons
We slip into Knopf Paul one frosty afternoon. The proprietor stands behind his old-fashioned cash register, deep in conversation with a woman frowning over a few spools of thread. The ceilings are high, and boxes of buttons reach right up......
Screen prints by Wednesday Paper Works
My four-year-old and I have been squabbling over where to put these wonderful silkscreen prints from Wednesday Paper Works. She wants them in her room, I want them in mine. For now they peregrinate between odd places in our flat,......
Clear as glass
I had just met a tranquil, handsome newborn who turned a week old the day before. I was singing to myself as I cycled home on that cheerless June afternoon. Skimming round the curve at Ernst Reuter Platz, I forked......
Dial M for Museum (Buchstabenmuseum & .HBC)
Isn't it pleasing to get on an escalator in a down-market shopping center and find a sleek museum at the top? Design students revamped the Buchstabenmuseum (the Museum of Letters) a couple of weeks ago: see the process documented here.......
Lieblingsschuh (Handmade shoes)
This is one of my favorite shop windows in the neighborhood. The sign on the window says "Dear Customers, Our family has expanded and we're on a baby break. Feel free to phone or email if you have a question......
