Founded in 2016 by Carolin Dunkel, APRIL FIRST is a Berlin-Mitte boutique conceived as a gallery-like mix of contemporary fashion and interiors. Its edit combines established and emerging international labels with furniture and design objects, beauty, fine jewelry and the store’s own 14k-gold pieces.
Best for Women’s fashion from international independent labels
Furniture restorer Christian Wetzel has run this antiques shop at Krämerbrücke 10 since 1997, dealing in Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces. Alongside jewellery, antique linens and lighting, the owners also buy in select older pieces.
Best for Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and period antiques
Lokaldesign sells limited-edition furniture, lighting and objects by independent designers in Hamburg. The shop is most relevant for buyers seeking small-run contemporary design rather than mass-produced home accessories.
Best for Limited-edition furniture, lighting, and objects by independent designers
Secondhand department store run by Hamburg's municipal sanitation service, Stadtreinigung Hamburg; rescues furniture, clothing, books and electronics daily from bulky-waste collections and donations for resale, with an in-house repair workshop.
Best for Second-hand retro fashion curated in the Schanze
Stilbruch is Hamburg's secondhand department-store operation, run by the city's own sanitation authority, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, rather than a private vintage retailer. It marked its 25th anniversary in July 2026, putting its founding around 2001. The stores are stocked from what the operation intercepts daily — furniture, clothing, books, bicycles, kitchenware and electronics pulled from bulky-waste collections, recycling drop-off points and direct donations before they reach landfill — and an in-house workshop refurbishes items before they go back on the floor. The two confirmed Stilbruch locations open to shoppers are in Altona (Ruhrstraße 51) and Wandsbek (Helbingstraße 63), both operating six days a week with separate hours for dropping off goods. The model doubles as municipal waste diversion and affordable secondhand retail, funded through the same public sanitation budget that runs Hamburg's household waste collection.
Run by stylist Nora Khereddine from Munich's Glockenbachviertel, this concept store mixes vintage furniture, pottery and lifestyle objects — including pieces sourced from her travels in Morocco — with oak shelving and bowls handmade by carpenter Fritz Baumann in his Munich workshop.
Best for Minimalist design objects and locally made woodwork, curated in Munich
Nora Khereddine Objects is a concept store run by stylist and designer Nora Khereddine in Munich's Glockenbachviertel district. Rather than a conventional retail showroom, the space is arranged as a lived-in interior, mixing furniture, ceramics, vintage finds and lifestyle accessories in muted natural tones — beige, grey and broken white — so that fashion, interior objects and fragrance are presented together in one setting rather than as separate departments. Part of the stock comes from Khereddine's own travels in Morocco, brought back and worked into the store's rotating selection of vintage pieces. Alongside the sourced and vintage items, the store carries furniture made specifically for it, including simple oak shelves and bowls handmade by the carpenter and artist Fritz Baumann in his own Munich workshop — one of the shop's few directly commissioned, locally produced product lines rather than curated finds. The store has also hosted pop-up presentations from other independent brands, such as the jewelry label Lutz Morris, reflecting a curatorial approach that treats the shop as an ongoing changing exhibition of objects as much as a fixed retail inventory.
A historic interiors store selling fabrics, furniture, tableware and made-to-measure furnishings. The family business maintains an in-house carpentry and upholstery tradition.
Best for Made-to-measure furnishings and fabrics from an in-house carpentry and upholstery tradition
The Flingern showroom occupies old-building rooms and mixes design classics, vintage furniture, lighting and one-off objects. Its team also handles residential and commercial interiors, from colour and lighting plans through renovation and installation.
Best for Unique interior items, design objects; concept store in Flingern's creative district
Grun und Form fills its Munster shops with hand-picked homeware, from its own Umbrian-made ceramic line to French glass, Tunisian olive wood, Fermob garden furniture and made-to-order scaffolding-board tables. Customers browse the Rosenstrasse and Bohlweg stores or order from the seasonal catalogue.