Manufactum in Cologne.
April 30, 2008
Today Manufactum opens it’s store in the city of Cologne, Germany. More than 1.000 sqm space provide the major part of the company’s catalogue-sortiment and a big food department.
Manufactum took place at 1920’s ‘Disch-Haus’, a former office building from architect Bruno Paul, originally built for an insurance company in ‘Neue Sachlichkeit‘-style after the building has just been carefully reconstructed. Neighbour is the Kolumba, a new museum for religious art, recently built by contemporary swiss star archictect Peter Zumthor and the dialogue of both buildings develop the quarter in the (hidden) heart of cologne to a architectural ‘must-see’-area.
Manufactum follows it’s own style of interieur design, using wood, steel and linoleum. There are interesting spots in the store - better: departmentstore - for “the good things”: Stationary next to classic tweed coats, famous Bauhaus-style lamps opposite the food area…
Manufactum waited some years for this fabulous location to be available, there is still some retail space left next door, waiting for sustainable entrepenuers…
Manufactum Warenhaus Köln, Brückenstr. 23, 50667 Köln, Mo-Fr 10-19 hrs, Sa 10-18 hrs.
July 3, 2008 at 2:31 pm
[...] This past April, one of our favorite online suppliers, Manufactum, opened a giant emporium in Cologne, Germany. Located in the Disch-Haus, a former office building built in the 1920s, the store is 1,000 square meters and includes a large food department as well as a huge assortment of household items. Via my new favorite site, Slow Retail. [...]