Research at KDW

It seems that at KDW, the unhappy East Germans took the power 

Let's say that you are at the famous KDW, trying to do some research about kitchen wares and porcelain. Honestly, you should be very very rich to enjoy not only the pleasure of writing about such a generous topic. The good news is that it is the open season for sales and you can find a temptations for less than 10 Euro - as, for instance, some Kenzo homewares.

A lovely corner 

Anyway, as was there on a kind of press trip and I do not have any budget this month for such eccentricities. Instead, I was there as a little spy with a big camera. And, again, I was welcomed with the usual greeting that I got more than one year ago, when I was gathering information for my guides: 'Sie duerfen nicht fotografieren!' But this was the only sentence uttered to me while wandering for almost one hour between the shelves with butterflies from Villeroy, the silverwares by Wilkers, the colourful counters from Wedgewood and my latest great discovery, Sieger by Diane Furstenberg. However, with the exception of the nice lady from Lalique - apparently, the rules 'the higher the price of the product, the higher the investment in training the customer relations representatives' is always working -, I did not see everyone smiling or careful to help the customers wandering around. Unless if they were not daring to take pictures and woke them up with the noise of the flash. 'Sie duerfen nich fotografieren'...

At least, the ladies selling beauty and make-up products were so welcoming and interested to present their products that I instantly booked some appointments for massage and body care in the next weeks.