The gradual renovation of Mitte’s Hackesche Höfe hardly needs any further comment, but there’s one corner of the development that begs an additional visit. Recently the former electricity substation on courtyard No.3 has found a new vocation as a pop-up retail space for the venerable Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur brand, and will also host boutique events and exhibitions in the near future (watch this space for a special collaboration slated for June). In Berlin the more grand of luxury marques have traditionally stayed in the upmarket retail zones of Friedrichstrasse and Kurfürstendamm – but KPM’s attractive, artsy porcelain homewares seems to have found an appropriate site in Mitte. The space, whose design paraphrases the iconic pavilion architecture of the Mies Van Der Rohe’s Neue National Galerie, encourages a gallery-like intimacy with the objects and from March visitors will be able to buy pieces. It’s a surprising pop-up worth certainly popping in to.
KPM TheBox
Hackesche Höfe, Berlin Mitte.
Mon – Sat 1pm – 7pm