This studio is part of a high-rise apartment building erected during DDR times as a place for high-level officials and privileged intellectuals. Now, it suddenly found itself in the center of the vivid new Berlin-Mitte. We designed the studio by blending a bit of East German design (see the ceiling light "Sputnik", for example) with current design from Berlin and Scandinavia. The photograph shows a famous event taking place in East Berlin in the Seventies. The walls display raw concrete, and the...