Typisch bremisch Typically “Bremish”

Lumentektur der Bremer Firma Urbanscreen hat einen neuen
Trend in der Kunstszene gesetzt.
Lumentecture by the Bremen company Urbanscreen has set a new
trend in the art scene.
copying the lamp en masse. In the autumn of 2012,
Tecnolumen fought back with the “No Fake” campaign.
This gave owners of fake Wagenfeld lamps a three-month
period in which they could report their fakes and exchange
them for the original free of charge.
While Bremen is not a design metropolis like Milan or
Berlin, the start of the 20th century heralded a heyday for
design in combination with art and the skilled crafts, with
a brightly varied creative scene that is still very lively to
this day. Those who have the honour to follow in the footsteps
of Michael Jackson, Mikhail Gorbachev or Queen
Elisabeth II to the Golden Chamber in Bremen Town Hall
will sit on chairs designed by the Art Nouveau artist
Heinrich Vogeler born in Bremen in 1872, and admire his
gilded leather wallpaper. From the door handles to the
chandeliers, everything in Bremen’s “best parlour” is part
of a complete work of art that is pure Art Nouveau.
A road as a complete work of art
Another complete work of art is Bremen’s Böttcherstraße,
that starts directly opposite the Town Hall on the other
side of the Marktplatz. Here the Bremen merchant Ludwig