Escentric Bedfellows

It’s the coolest store in Berlin, maybe even the world. Escentric Molecules’ stockist, Andreas Murkudis, is where Geza Schoen goes browsing for green trousers and brown paper hats… Here are a few of his favourite things.

Escentric Bedfellows

“Andreas has an incredible eye. He finds the best things you could imagine, and some you could never imagine, like the massive leather teepee he had in here one time costing €60 000. It was so big it couldn’t fit in at first and had to be customised. Andreas used to be the director of the Museum der Dinge (the museum of things) here in Berlin. You hear people using the word ‘curate’ for stores all the time these days, but Andreas really does curate the stuff in here. It’s a beautiful space, enormous, with high windows and ceiling somewhere up in the clouds. It used to be the old printing works for the Tagesspiegel newspaper. And it smells good – you can just catch the faint background aroma of old, worn-down wooden floors.”

 

In Geza’s imaginary shopping basket...