TsaTsas Atelier
TSATSAS founders and owners Esther Schulze-Tsatsas and Dimitrios Tsatsas themselves masterminded the store’s concept and design. For their new outlet they completely gutted the building’s ground floor (the frontage is on Frankenallee) and designed interventions that carefully visually structure the space in different functional zones.
The basic philosophy was not to place the rooms in competition with the products showcased in them, but to lend each individual zone its very own, unmistakable design feel. Simple materials such as plywood panels and industrial shelving were put to extraordinary use and finished with utmost precision, thereby forging a link to TSATSAS’ handcrafted fine leather goods.
An impressive five-meter floor-to-ceiling shelf unit showcases the collection of bags and accessories as the Tsatsas Atelier’s central element. Dimitrios Tsatsas imported the marble for the industrial shelf elements from his native country of Greece. The Greek marble now sets the stage for the presentation of various bag styles, including LUCID, which is made of calf leather from southern Germany, and FLUKE, made of shrunken lamb nappa leather from New Zealand.
The studio where the TSATSAS Collection is produced is located in nearby Offenbach. Here the leather goods are made by hand with over 30 years of expertise and tradition in leathercraft. The designs and prototypes however are exclusively developed in the TSATSAS Atelier. To this end, a workshop has been incorporated into the existing space, creating an independent room within a room by virtue of mounting matt lacquered, mitre joint plywood panels.
The workspaces of the TSATSAS sales and PR teams are concealed behind a floor-to-ceiling wall panel with an integrated section of tinted glass. The back office is likewise accommodated here. Countless design icons have been given pride of place in the TSATSAS Atelier, including objects by Konstantin Grcic, Michael Anastassiades, Paolo Rizzatto or Le Corbusier, and by manufacturers such as Classicon, Nya Nordiska, Flos, Magis, Mattiazzi, Cassina and Plank.
