VT (for all of my design-obsessed peeps)

imagecourtesyberlinrodeo Peeps, I've realized that any discussion about design in Germany would be wholly inadequate without acknowledging the superlative level of creativity found in Berlin.  Magazine editors and bloggers rave about the fashion sensibilities of Berliners (both street style and the clothing lines presented on the runways during Fashion Week).  Art critics, dealers, and curators unanimously acknowledge that Berlin's burgeoning art scene is the loci of imaginative, energetic, raw, and uncensored offerings in fine arts, as well as the decorative and applied arts, industrial and graphic design.  Apparently artistic types from all parts of the continent, and as far east as the western frontiers of the former USSR have discovered the attractions of this city situated on the cross-roads between East and West.  Friends of mine who deal in antiques grumble that London has been picked clean, Paris and New York's inventory is too pricey to turn a prof...