Social .. Quasi social .. Solitary .. Spiders ... On hybrid cosmic webs

A visit on Saturday afternoon ... amazing ... capturing ... fascinating show!

Tomás Saraceno
Social .. Quasi social .. Solitary .. Spiders ... On hybrid cosmic webs

15th of March till 13th of April 2013

Galerie
Esther Schipper
Schöneberger Ufer 65
Berlin

www.estherschipper.com

Soeur

Soeur is a lovingly selected second-hand store that stocks impeccable designer seconds such as Chanel, Dries van Noten and a few choice current pieces from Acne and A.P.C..

Soeur
Marienburger Str. 24
Berlin

www.soeur.com

Volta

Volta offers so-called pub food: Excellent snacks in a laid-back atmosphere that can be taken in at a table or directly at the counter running through the 1970's style pavilion on Brunnenstraße.

Volta
Brunnenstr. 73
Berlin

www.volta.com

MDC Cosmetics

Entering the MDC Cosmetics shop space, the long perspective view is underlined through the use of repetitive frame openings. The architects Gonzalez Haase created a series of buffer spaces within stepped up platforms.

MDC offers exclusive and hand-selected products from around the world. Nearly all products are made by small, traditional manufacturers, many using time-honored production methods and recipes handed down through the generations. The selection of products is based on the concepts of beauty, well-being, and wholesomeness. Life is beautiful – more beautiful than you think!

MDC Cosmetic
Knaack Str. 26
Berlin

www.mdc-cosmetic.com

Into the Woods V

Reading Room | do you read me?!

The Reading Room is a location for lectures, exhibitions, discussions and all those still slumbering ideas and projects. It has been designed as an interpretation of a typical reading room. Two »Tavolo Rettangolare 5« from Enzo Mari’s »Autoprogettazione« from 1974 form the core of the space. Unfinished Artek classics and Enzo Mari chairs invite to linger and pause.

do you read me?!
Reading Room & Shop
Potsdamer Strasse 98
Berlin

www.readingroom.de

LINNEN

LINNEN
Café, Bar & Apartments
Eberswalder Straße 35
Berlin

www.linnenberlin.com

8 Questions to Sebastian Summa & Jo Hany

Tell me about your cupboard installation in Café Linnen in Berlin...

Sebastian: Our friends from Café Linnen in Berlin asked me if I could design something unique for their new café place. I had the idea of an wall filling installation, which would give a certain charm to the room. To me the vintage cupboards, we’ve used were a symbol for a welcoming kitchen.

We cut them into hundreds of pieces and constructed something new. By doing this, we exaggerated the idea of a kitchen, and turned it into something more absurd, but tried to keep a friendly atmosphere.

What is your background and how did you end up doing what you are doing today?

We both trained to become artisans, before we met in 1999 in Potsdam, where we studied Design. After finishing University we both started to work on our own projects, while working for a company that produced sculptures and art installations for contemporary artists. Working at this place, refined our artisan skills and gave us a good impression on how different applied artists work. This experience has influenced our projects ever since.

What inspires you currently?

Sebastian: I always feel drawn to the 50s and 60s, a time that was key to the history of Design. Of course it is impossible to reinvent the industrial shapes and materials of the 50s and 60s, but it is a great base to de-construct and re-interpret.

Jo: It’s nothing for our corporate work - more for me as an artist. I’ve noticed the trend of morphsuits with a laugh and a smile. It´s about the mixture of anonymity and see through.

What would be your dream project together?

We would love to discover the chapter 'Design as an installation' even more. The perfect scenario would be an open but neutral space, something like a white cube, and limitless materials.

If you had to do something else, what would it be?

Sebastian: We share a passion for the mountains. We have played with the idea to leave the city behind and open a camping ground in the Savoy Alps.

Jo: Oh, and I thought it was the Karwendel Mountains.

Sebastian: It doesn’t matter, it was all about the culinary peaks : )

What is your favourite place to be?

Our Workshop!

What does a typical Sunday morning look like for you?

Having breakfast in Café Linnen : )

If you were a colour, what colour would it be and why?

Sebastian: For me it would be brown. It’s down to earth and it is a bit of every colour.

Jo: Is grey a colour? If it is, I’d choose grey, because I think that most truth is neither black nor white, it is a shade of grey. 



www.sebastiansumma.de

Male Nudes - Female Desires

This beautiful and sensitive exhibition shows photographs by Jen Davis, Nina Hoffmann, Lina Scheynius and Paula Winkler.

Paula Winkler born in 1980 in Berlin, lives and works in Berlin.
Lina Scheynius born in 1981 in Vänersborg, Sweden, lives and works in London.
Jen Davis born in 1978 in Akron, USA, lives and works in New York City.
Nina Hoffmann born in 1980 in Spaichingen, lives and works in Berlin.

25th of January till 2nd of March 2013

Galerie Tanja Wagner
Pohlstraße 64
Berlin

www.tanjawagner.com

La Lavanderia Vecchia

Located in a former laundry, the Lavanderia Vecchia offers a tasty italian menu in a very arcane atmosphere.  
The space still looks like an old laundry place and lots of table cloths ‘hung out to dry’ will not even allow you to forget the location’s old purpose. The kitchen is completely open and you can witness the cooks prepare the 13 courses.

La Lavanderia Vecchia
Flughafenstr. 46
Berlin

www.lavanderiavecchia.de

ting

Beautiful objects from the Far East and the near north.

ting
Rykestraße 41
Berlin

www.ting-shop.com

Nazuna

Fresh Japanese homemade food and delicious sweets. Every week Tsuki Hasegawa prepares another mix of lunch box to go plus variations of little Japanese dishes.

Nazuna
Danziger Str 65.
Berlin

www.nazuna-berlin.com

WONDERFUL – Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Die Olbricht Collection

The Wunderkammer has been a permanent part of me Collectors Room in Auguststrasse since the opening of the exhibition space in 2010 and is currently the only one of its kind in Berlin. At the moment the Wunderkammer presents spectacular artworks that have been recently acquired, along with several contemporary works from the Olbricht Collection that center on the theme of the Wunderkammer or historical ‘cabinet of curiosities’.

WONDERFUL – Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Die Olbricht Collection
29th of November 2012 till 28th of April 2013 

me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation 
Auguststrasse 68
Berlin

www.me-berlin.com

happy new year!

Start 2013 with bright prospects!

Berlinische Galerie

The Berlinische Galerie collects art from Berlin dating from 1870 to the present day – with both a local and international focus. Its outstanding collections include Dada Berlin, the Neue Sachlichkeit and the Eastern European avant-garde.

Berlinische Galerie
Alte Jakobstraße 124 
Berlin

www.berlinischegalerie.de

R.S.V.P.

At R.S.V.P. (a french abbreviation "Répondez s’il vous plaît") you will find beautiful writing materials and stationary from all over the world.

R.S.V.P. – Papier in Mitte
Mulackstraße 14
Berlin 

www.rsvp-berlin.de

Into the Woods IV

no74.

no74.
Torstraße 74 
Berlin

www.no74-berlin.com

lorch+seidel contemporary.

Kazue Taguchi’s most recent installation series, is shaped by light, reflection and by motion. Cyclically recurring reflections create spherical images whose poetry transports viewers on a journey into endless space.

Freischwimmer
Kazue Taguchi
24th of November until 19th of January 2013

lorch+seidel contemporary.
Tucholskystraße 38
Berlin

www.lorch-seidel.de

Sgaminegg

This little hidden Café offers excellent food with a focus on southern german cuisine and an eclectic wine selection.

Sgaminegg
Seelower Str. 2
Berlin

www.sgaminegg.de