Modulor
by James Glazebrook
Its concern with both form and function, and blurring of the lines between home and work, reflects what we feel is a very Berlin mindset. In a city where many homes are converted factories and many places of work are in old apartment buildings, why shouldn’t your office be as aesthetically pleasing as your home, and your flat as functional as your office?
Theorising aside, do check out Modulor – chances are you’ll find us wandering aimlessly through its aisles, saying irrational things like “Ooo… I love these! What are they? Can we get one in every colour of the rainbow?” If you experience the same kind of “supply snow blindness”, we recommend using the 3D relief map of Berlin, pictured in the last photo, to reorientate yourself. Yes, that’s where you are…
Did you go to the cafe next door? Try it, I really liked it.
Yeah, really nice. They didn’t make it easy to order café food in the restauranty bit, but once we had food on the way, we really liked it too.
The old modulor on Gneisenaustraße might have been more charming (browsing there felt like a treasure-hunt), but the new modulor is just overwhelming and triggering lots of new ideas. On our first visit it had just opened it’s doors and the racks weren’t fully filled. I’ll be back!
Yepp, it’s the kind of store where you want everything although you might not need anything…Love the restaurant in the Kohldampf store and also that the furniture store sells design by the Danish company HAY (and all the vitra design classic of course)!
I know, the furniture’s amazing! If I was one of the city’s few rich people in Berlin, my penthouse apartment would be full of that stuff!
And well written James so entertaining to read !!!
You’d love it papa! defo one for the next trip
ohhh i would love a browse through that ….and bella blissx