Friday, 21 September 2007 |

You are in Stuttgart and in need of a cool party space. Or maybe you
just don’t know what to do with your spare old house. Either way,
you’ll want to connect with the Berlin-based trio of architects
—Thorsten Blatter, Andreas Blödow and Georg Schmidthals — at and off . These guys have just reclaimed an old house in Stuttgart and created Die Blaue Caro (German for Blue Diamond), an ever-changing temporary club.

They call it a kitchen club and, on last look, it did indeed resemble a
kitchen slightly. Here’s how it’s done: Use blue and white tile samples
for wall and floor coverings, position cool objects on tiny shelves
jutting off the tile walls, crank up the superior sound system (by
Logitech) and invite some fun people to your funky kitchen, which of
course is the place where all good parties start and end anyways. Each
event alters Die Blaue Caro space, an idea that is typical of and off.
They use found objects and eclectic combinations of styles, and they
want the spaces constantly converted and rearranged. So, check out Die
Blaue Caro now, while it’s still a kitchen. By Tuija Seipell
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