This place stocks the best and most potent absinthes from across the world - including, of course, the good Czech stuff. If you're lucky the owner might even invite you for a...

This young Swedish brand has a huge following. Its Berlin flagship store is the first outside of Scandinavia and features the label's complete seasonal collections of men's and...

This (supposedly) art deco monstrosity may not look like much from the outside, but inside it's pleasant enough. And with over 180 stores, it provides some much-needed shopping...

Three concept shops hidden in a courtyard behind the Acne store, AM 1-3 offer a reverently presented selection of cutting-edge, luxury designers, many of them local. The shop...

Sells a huge variety of stuff emblazoned with the old East's enduring symbol, the jaunty red and green traffic-light men - these days weirdly proliferating in West Berlin too.

Unmarked and entirely empty, Apartment's huge white-box storefront is easy to miss. But head down to the basement and you'll find clothing, accessories and shoes from hot local...

Tucked into the Hackesche Höfe, this art bookshop specialises in 20th-century culture, stocking titles on everything from photography to dance, design to film, architecture to...

This label, artist management office and record store specialises in Gypsy and other music from Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Bulgaria and elsewhere. One of the best places...

Painter and potter Hinrich Kröger lovingly crafts vases, decorative wall plates, bowls, cups and other ceramics and hand paints them with erotic motifs.

Very cool shop for any and everything 'aus Berlin'. Innovative and design-happy like the city itself, this place sells everything from flashy books to Berlin-themed plasters,...

This colourful shop is full of handbags hip and bright, plain or clubby, with prices starting at €35.

The interior design at Beate Kahlcke is a study in cool, clean-lined sophistication - perfect for a salon that operates in conjunction with Aveda and the design hotel Lux 11...

Exclusive salon on the garden level of a private apartment building. The waiting room doubles as a gallery space, and two client rooms are decorated in 1960s and baroque...

You won't find a better selection of Berlin-related books in German and English: everything from novels with Berlin settings to non-fiction volumes on history and culture....