Together with her three employees, Susanne Benter showcases the newest fashion trends

I sensed it from the beginning: From the moment I stepped in, I left the rational area and proceeded to non-controllable territory. Don’t worry: I’m neither on a dangerous expedition at undetected Himalaya Mountains nor am I on the TV-Show ‘RTL-Dschungelcamp’. I’m only exploring the Munich Boutique of Susanne Benter, my friend Andrea has been gushing about. Three years ago Susanne Benter from Northern Germany opened her chic fashion temple at the heart of the Bavarian Isar-Metropolis. Fashion enthusiasts should be equipped with good control mechanisms if they don’t want to get into a shopping fever.

“My only hobby is the daily cycling to the shop”, says Susanne Benter, who advises customers herself every day.

At a 150 square meter sales area the studied ladies’ tailor and textile economist Benter showcases a brand mix her customers love: Missoni, See by Chloe, Ivi – but then there are also rather unknown newcomers, that the former buyer of Ludwig Beck offers a forum at her boutique. “Young designers rarely have a stage”, outlines Susanne Benter her buying concept. “Here they coexist next to already established brands.”

Cashmere is always a goog idea

For 13 years Susanne Benter has been living and working in Munich now. From early on the ‘girl from the countryside’ dreamed of self-employment. “Fashion has always been my passion”, explains Benter, who likes to get inspired by her trips to the fashion capital Paris. “And when I found this shop by accident, it was a real godsend.” Residing between the Hotel ‘Bayrischer Hof’ and the shopping mall ‘Fünf Höfe’ Susanne Benter is in adequate neighborhood. ‘The beauty is, that I am always in direct exchange with my customers and therefore know exactly what they want.

“I absolutely wanted brass as material for the shop design”, says trend scout Susanne Benter, “even though four years ago it wasn’t common at all.”

Beautiful is her shop as well, interior designer Claudia Breil from Hamburg refurbished it with light colors, graphic wallpapers from Cole & Son, wood paneling, and trendy brass. “I didn’t want it clean, cool, white”, says Benter, “but a cozy atmosphere – just like home.” And maybe that is the exposure: The shop with it’s comfortable sitting areas and XXL changing rooms in boudoir style quickly lets you forget where you are. BvH

“We are very much counting on fur, like this mink from Furry”, says Susanne Benter. “Especially younger women don’t buy at the classic furrier anymore.”

Bags of the young Munich label ‘Any Di’ belong into the Benter assortment as well as cashmere from ‘Heart’

Accessories by the Munich label ‘Any Di’

The trends of the recent season: “Capes, Ponchos and ‘Flared Jeans’ are a MUST.”

In the showcase precious jewelries from Nicola Hinrichsen

Susanne Benter offers brands like Bazar de Luxe, Ivi, Paige Jeans, Shirt-à-Porter, Hemisphere Kaschmir, Manzoni 24, Taj, Her Shirt

Inventive is this presentation of the ‘Statement-Colliers’ in round showcases

MyStylery loves the lamps and armchairs in the sixties design

Cashmere is always a good idea

Lurex Stockings from Missoni

My favorite: leather leggings like this from Arma in the current fall colors

Fashion victims watch out: Not only can you buy the great scented candles from Voluspa here, but also the hip fur pom poms

Susanne Benters boutique is located between Promenadenplatz and Salvatorchurch with a view to the Frauenkirche

Contact:

Susanne Benter
Kardinal Faulhaber Straße 15
80333 München
www.susanne-benter.de

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Very chic: Pan Am Lounge employee Cecilie looks like she just appeared from a time journey in her Pan Am uniform

There’re lots of party hotspots in Berlin, but one of them is ranked very high in my personal ranking: the Pan Am Lounge in Berlin. No other location is so history-charged and simultaneously cool and hip like the lounge, which once pertained to the pilots and stewardesses of the American airline Pan Am as their Berlin home.

The Livingroom of the Pan Am-Suite with a tufted leather sofa from the 60s

Indeed West Berlin could have only be approached by the airlines of the western alliance after the Second World War. Besides Pan Am, those were Airfrance and British Airways. In 1965 the former major of Berlin and later chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt inaugurated the Europa-Center. There the Pan Am ensconced itself and opened its headquarter in the pile between Ku’damm and Breitscheidtplatz. The airline concurrently solved the question where to leave the staff during their flight free days: cabins- and cockpit crews got accommodated in the adjacent apartment building ‘Eden-Haus’. It was the beginning of a legendary party era.

From portable tv and framed lunar landing motive to head-high cacti and illuminated globe: here’s everything in proper style in the sixties look

clinker-chimney and fabric wallpaper

And on top of the socalled ‘Eden-Haus’ in the 12th floor a place for leisure has been designed for the crews, from which roof one has an unrestricted all-round view over Berlin. This dream location was officially reserved for the employees of Pan Am, whose wild parties had a reputation like a donnerhall. This raised desire and an exclusive circle got access to the Pan Am Lounge – with Willy Brandt as one of the prominent fans of the first hour. But in the course of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 as well as the merger of the two parts of Berlin ended the party era. Pan Am went bankrupt. And the Lounge fell into a deep sleep.

A place for leisure for pilots and stewardesses

Manager Natascha Bonnermann in front of the logo of Pan Am Airlines, a stylised globe

Then Natascha Bonnermann appeared, a Rhenish cheerful person with Austrian experiences in the gastronomy, who looks like she has just arisen out of the Sixties. When the former actress turned the keys of the lounge ten years ago, she was astonished: in front of her lay a sixties-paradise, a jewel box, that would have withstand every movie set. The present manager of the Pan Am Lounge blew the dust from the teak furniture and bar chairs and immersed new life into the lounge. The revival of the legendary party-location!

“Sixties design never got old”, says Natascha Bonnermann. “It got either more appealing.”

However the true treasure slumbered one floor under the lounge: a small maisonette apartment, that was inhabited by the Pan Am pilots and still gives the feeling, that a man with suitcase could enter the room just in every second: kidney-shaped tables and 60s chairs in front of clinker-chimney and wallpapered doors.

Natascha Bonnermann about the bedroom equipped with zebra printed carpet: “Modern sex appeal that promises a lot and keeps everything.”

In the lower part of the apartment-suite one will see an original 60s kitchen including a bar, as well as a sleeping- and living room on the upper floor (whose walls are covered with zebra printed carpet). What might have happened at this place?
Even nowadays a former Pan Am stewardess, who likes to remind herself of the wild 60s, still lives in the apartment building ‘Eden-Haus’. The best partys in town, which have been celebrated there. And are even celebrated nowadays. BvH

Here you can still sleep well – because the suite is rented

Home cinema: the crafty pilot deposited a camera towards the bed

Beautiful, the violet floor tiles, right? Also the bathrooms of the Lounge and Suite are originally preserved

The carpet in the suite with the Pan Am logo in typical Pan Am blue

A Pan Am stock purchase warrant: The pilot was a shrewd investor – until the end of the 80s the airline went bankrupt

Kitchen with bar: here’s everything in proper sixties style

Always up-to-date

Take a look into the kitchen – how about the pattern of the curtains?

Foresight: from here you can see all over Berlin and into the ‘Zoologische Garten’

In the duplex suite, there is also a children’s room on the upper floor

“Some things had to be superseded”, explains Pan Am Lounge Manager Natascha Bonnermann, “therefore I have my secret sources everywhere.”

Waitress, a tomato juice please! The present lounge personal wears Pan Am uniform – of course.

The Pan Am Lounge – the legendary party-location in Berlin

Info:
The Pan Am Lounge can be rented for events up to 200 people. The suite offers space for 30 guests.
Contact:
Pan Am Lounge
Budapester Str. 43
10787 Berlin

www.panamloungeberlin.com

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