A city with many faces and as many clichés. But Munich is first of all refreshingly green. The banks of the Isar, the parks and beer gardens never let this concrete jungle feeling of other metropolises come up. Compared to other European cities, the city also has a very high density of educational and cultural institutions. Munich embodies a livable mixture of tradition and tolerance, hard work and leisure. Cheers to that!
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About trees and inner values. Bernhard Heinloth is the second managing director at Schotten & Hansen alongside Torben Hansen since 2015. At the Schotten & Hansen manufactory, a different way of working…
David “Davo” Phillips is ten when he sits on a bicycle saddle for the first time. The Australian is a bit of a late starter, but a new world opens up for…
Gerard Wiener is a legend. For friends of analog photography and classic cameras from Leica, Rollei, Hasselblad or Nikon, his store on Landwehrstraße is a bright fixture. For four decades, Mr. Wiener…
After being released in mid November, the first edition of the Makers Bible München ” Handgemachte Qualität” is almost sold out. Here is a list of local dealers who still have some…
There are many arguments in favor of a tailor-made suit, especially our body. Not symmetrical by nature, subject to a certain amount of change over the years, and anyone who suddenly starts…
Already in the 7th generation, Martin Trautmann practices the shoemaking handcraft. After his training as an orthopedic shoemaker, he spent years of travel in France, Austria and Australia. Broadening the horizon, improving.…
Ralf Fischer’s fine feeling for menswear. This is how you could call the assortment of his store. Most of the pieces of the eternal seeker come from manufacturers he knows personally from…
Master patissier Lea Zapf has made her dream come true by moving into a typical green shack at the Viktualienmarkt. In the market patisserie she bakes with natural ingredients from the nearest…
In the Fraunhofer Straße, not far from the centre in Munich’s Glockenbachviertel, at number 31 there is a door with lots of bell signs, so that one suspects that this is another…
Julius Brantner cares for quality time. Not for himself, but for his bread. Because that is exactly what the son of a baker’s family from the Black Forest gives his bread in…
Our latest book out of the Makers Bible series. Munich “Handmade Quality” is our latest book out of the Makers Bible series. A compact city guide in pocket book format, which leads…
Street names reveal much about the former use of the districts. Schwere Reiter-, Lazarett- or Infanterie street give a hint to military bases which were located here. Directly south of it was…
Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg was founded by the Bavarian royal family 260 years ago. We had the pleasure to visit the traditional workshops.
We visited the Ory Bar in Munich, where we met Falco Torini for a Mai Tai.
The year 2020, when the idea for this book – our first guide in the Makers Bible Guide series – was born, is a very special one. After all, the time of the lockdown has shown what is really important. First and foremost, these are small collectives: the family and the community of “the village”, which in Munich stands metaphorically for the individual districts. Consuming locally may also mean contributing to the organic continuity of the neighbourhood.
Munich is a city of diversity, in every respect: the people who live here and their backgrounds, the businesses of the big city, whose diversity is based equally on tradition and new ideas, and last but not least, the geographical interplay of the individual districts form the big and whole, namely the “beautiful city on the banks of the Isar”.
If you are not already there: Travel to Munich and discover the best places to local and handmade quality. To good food and outstanding hosts, places to shop, discover and simply enjoy. Very much off the beaten track.
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