Dangerous stuff

I've been having a splendid time in North Germany, despite truly disgusting weather, and taking the opportunity to enjoy many of my favourite things about life over there. Today, on the way home, I spent a wet day in Hamburg and among other things discovered an enormously dangerous shop which sells all kinds of things for the home, kitchen and office, chosen to combine beauty and utility, with an extra portion of old fashioned manufacturing or craft standards - though 'old fashioned' in this case includes modernism. All very German in an Anglophilic sort of way.

After being torn away by my friend from several gorgeous things I couldn't afford to buy - such as the Hastil fountain pen - or those for which I had no immediate use, such as the hat boxes - I reflected, with a mixture of sadness and relief, that they didn't have such things in Britain. (My friend, I think, was just relieved to get me away from the knives and axes)

Only it turns out that they do have such shops, or at least such catalogues in Britian. And with an internet shop, too.

http://www.manufactum.co.uk/

ETA: Gosh, they even have red indiarubber balls, like King John wanted for Christmas.