Moritz Wenz - Düsseldorf

Art and Gastronomy

Moritz Wenz ist’t the first to send a photographer with his products into a mine shaft. But he does not want to play around with the contrast between delicate design and rough steel industry – so to speak, his accessories return directly to their origin. 1500m underground, Moritz Wenz finds out that here, cloth only lasts about half a day. Thus, he embosses hammer and mallet into leather. Again and again, new ideas contribute to his collection, ranging from jewellery to a cork screw kit – main point: durable and a little rough. For his series Flöz (engl: coal seam) he designs belts and robust bags for stowing away tools. They rec all diminishing jobs from the mining and steelwork sector and the utilities used there, although tablets and documents are put in there instead of a lunch box or a working knife. To realise his ideas, Moritz Wenz works together with an even older branch of industry: manual crafting. The designer hires small manufacturing workshops and family-led businesses from North Rhine-Westphalia. Not only does this fit the regional history of his products, Moritz Wenz finds it useful to drop in with his bag manufacturer, just like that.
Author: Petra Engelke
Foto: Erwin Wenzel

Shaken and stirred

The neon longhand "Ellington" sign shines brightly against the dark red wall above the dark counter. Beneath it are countless bottles with a host of other cocktail ingredients. In the Ellington bar, located near the Düsseldorf main station, the bartender tosses the cocktail mixer from one hand to the other and spiffs up the glass with a colourful and eye-catching decoration. The spectacle is always accompanied by good music. The Ellington is a true treat for the eye as well a s the palate. In addition to the daily bar operation, the operators in Aachen, Cologne and Düsseldorf regularly offer cocktail courses, suitable for both beginners and advanced. A visit is an absolute must, whether to drink the cocktails or to mix them yourself.
Author: Sandra Redegeld

Scheurenstraße 5 40215 Düsseldorf https://www.11cl.de/bar-ellington

Smile, there's Gin!

When you look around inside the Pechmarie, you might think that this is home to the spirit of a well-heeled old gentleman who always walks through his "living room" with a selected glass of gin in his hand before he sits down on dark, old furniture. He thus lends it a very special character. In fact, the team behind the bar at Pechmarie in beautiful Flingern is much younger than the character of the bar suggests. What stands out at the bar with the unique flair, good music and rustic ambience, however, is its gin menu. With more than 100 different gin varieties, there is something for everyone’s taste. For non-gin drinkers, there’s a beer menu, which trumps with more than 20 different varieties. The Pechmarie is a joint as it s hould be in every city. Here and everywhere.
Author: Sandra Redegeld

Ackerstraße 109 40233 Düsseldorf

Time out at the railway embankment

The Sennhütte is a restaurant with a very special charm. Located next to the "Zoo" commuter train stop in Düsseldorf, the trains pass by on a regular basis at 100 km/h - leaving in their wake not only a wonderful sound, but also a unique character. The trains don’t really disturb anyone here, quite the opposite: with delicious vino, tasty food and freshly tapped beer, the Sennhütte emanates a very special atmosphere. The menu is wide-ranging and varied, the dishes are all lovingly prepared, and the plates are nicely decorated. Minutes turn in to hours in th is rustic pub and cozy beer garden, and actually there ’ s no other place one would rather be than in the Sennhütte - with delicious food and fresh beer.
Author: Sandra Redegeld
Fotos: Bozica Babic

Rethelstraße 96 40237 Düsseldorf

"In orbit" will be reopened in spring

The fine line between the dimensions we know and those we still want to discover is so narrow that when dancing over the metaphorical high wire, you quickly lose ground. This is precisely what the artist Tomás Saraceno is aiming for in his fascinating space installation "in orbit." The installation in the huge glass cupola of the K21 will re-open at the beginning of 2017 after "in orbit" enjoyed phenomenal success in the same venue last year. Suspended at a height of 20 metres is a wire net construction which visitors can walk over in order to enter transparent PVC balls. The artist based his design on the structure of a spider web - and then went beyond that . With your feet on the ground but floating in the air, an experience you can only have here.
Author: Sandra Redegeld
Fotos: Studio Tomás Saraceno © 2013

Ständehausstraße 1 40217 Düsseldorf http://www.kunstsammlung.de/