8 Locations
An eye-catcher is what turns a room, an outfit or a shop window from ordinary into memorable, and Berlin is full of them. A bold piece of design, a striking display or a standout dish, an eye-catcher grabs attention and holds it. This tag collects Berlin locations built around the striking and the unusual.
Design shops and concept stores around Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg stock statement furniture and accessories, while galleries and studios across Kreuzberg show work made to provoke a second look. Markets and boutiques turn up one off pieces, and several restaurants plate food as carefully as any artwork. The city rewards those who like to stand out.
Browse the addresses below to find an eye-catcher across Berlin, from design objects to showstopping interiors.
In the Graefekiez, hats for women, men and children hang on red walls and in colourful shelf cubes. The range runs from flat caps, fedoras, trilbies and pork pies to bowler hats and top hats, plus fascinators and hair accessories. Customers are advised by face shape, and the search continues until the headwear truly fits.
In the Hackesche Hoefe sits the flagship store of a German bag brand that has been run as a family business since 2002. The leather comes from LWG certified tanneries, and on more than ninety percent of the models the lining is made from recycled PET. There is also a vegan line made from post industrial material instead of leather.
In the Kollwitzkiez at the Goehrener Ei, a Berlin workshop has been designing fashion jewellery in small batches since 2001. Development and assembly happen in its own studio, while casting and electroplating are done by specialist firms in Idar Oberstein and Pforzheim. Broken chains are repaired in house, some of them straight away.
In Mommsenstraße, a milliner has run a small hat manufactory with her own studio since 1998. Hats are crafted from straw, felt, velvet, and braids, with a range spanning from fascinators to pillbox hats and top hats. Diagonally opposite, the men's salon has been located since 2010. The establishment still works worldwide for stage, film, and television.
On Stargarder Straße, an owner has been running a boutique for women's fashion, shoes, and accessories since 2011. The brands come from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, and Germany; the shoes are made in Europe from genuine leather. Sustainability is an explicit selection criterion; fast fashion is not included in the range.
At the corner of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse stands the largest of the brand's six Berlin shops, on the very spot where the first traffic light with the original Ampelmaennchen once stood. Alongside bags, umbrellas, hats and key rings, a permanent exhibition shows over thirty traffic lights from around the world.
Berlin hatmaker Fiona Bennett creates extravagant hat fashion in her studio, which has been featured multiple times in Vogue and adorns famous heads with her creations.
Finally, no more eternal bag boredom! If you want to go out with a different bag every day, tausche at Helmholzplatz in Prenlauer Berg is the right place for you.