Salvatore Ferragamo’s star is rising further over Berlin: the Italian mega-brand has opened another store, this time on the city’s main luxury shopping strip Kurfurstendamm. For the occasion, James Ferragamo, Joerg and Maria Koch invited 032c’s friends and family to the opening on Thursday evening, and for dinner and dancing at Cafe Einstein. Click through to see what happened on the night, and visit the store at Kurfürstendamm 194.
Artist Dorothea Nold gets “an average of five calls a day” from international investors interested in buying into the new Berlin property developments advertised on posters and billboards in the city’s Kreuzberg and Treptow areas. What these would-be financiers don’t know is that the placards – which feature company names such as Desperate Development and absurd architectural renderings – are part of an art project-cum-awareness campaign satirizing the engorged real estate market in the German capital. “I have nothing against development,” says Nold, “but how and for whom people are building in Berlin at the moment really upsets me.” 🏗🏗
READ MORE (in German) at our local daily, the B.Z. ➡️➡️
