Everything people actually ask us — about the Atlas, the Verified stamp, the Matchmaker, and how shops get in. If your question isn’t here, write to us.
The Atlas of Berlin vintage: a guide to the second hand scene of the city, mapped kiez by kiez. It exists as an online directory, and as a book and PDF. Every guide is written from Berlin, by someone who actually walks into the shops — not compiled from the Internet.
Verified means one simple thing: we have been there, in person. Prices checked, rails checked, mood checked. Shops can’t buy the stamp, and we don’t put it on a shop we haven’t visited. If an entry isn’t verified yet, we say it.
English, French and German. Berlin shops in three languages, because that’s how this city talks.
Continuously. Berlin shops open, move and close faster than any printed guide can follow — the online Atlas is the living version, the book is the yearly photograph of it.
You tell us your style, your budget, your size and your quartier through a short form. Within 48 hours, you receive your personal vintage route through Berlin: the right kiez, the right shops, in the right order — matched by a Berliner, not by a machine.
Between 15 and 25 €, depending on the format you choose. Cheaper than one impulse buy you’ll never wear, and it saves you whole Saturdays of guessing.
That has never happened — Berlin’s second hand scene is too vast. But if we can’t build a route we’re proud of, we say so and you don’t pay.
We find most shops ourselves, kiez by kiez — and we visit before anything is published. You can also introduce your shop to us via Submit a listing. An entry is never published without an on-site visit.
A one-time 49 € entry for the first shops of the Atlas: a full profile in your kiez guide (online + book + PDF) with photos, link and your story, plus a permanent “Founding Partner” mention. You read and correct your entry before it goes live.
Kiez guides can be sponsored — one sponsor per kiez, clearly labelled. We never sell sponsoring per listing: what we write about each shop stays editorial, that’s the whole point of the Verified stamp.
No. And honestly, that’s the best thing we can offer you: when the guide says a shop is good, readers know it’s true.