Young Berlin-based multidisciplinary designer
Vanessa Heepen straddles the worlds of creative direction, spatial design and event production, seeking to deliver spaces that are equally functional and laced with a singular atmosphere. Her latest project, a customer service area for Berlin’s department store
KaDeWe, is a real testament to this approach.
I have to admit that when I first saw the images of this interior, I thought they were renders rather than the real thing. And this is precisely where the magic of the atmosphere lies because I feel that Vanessa pushed the overall aesthetic into the realms of the virtual while creating the physical.
She worked with product and interior designer,
Claire Wildenhues, to transform KaDeWe’s 5th floor, once known as the traditional
Silberterrasse house restaurant, which occupied the same space for more than a century.
As an homage to the architectural zeitgeist of
Silberterrasse, the wood-panelled rooms of old Charlottenburg have been transported into modernity. The new face of the customer service area moves away from static, dark and heavy into a space that feels bright, dynamic and open.
