Design
Berlin: Barbie's New Home
The famous doll now has a life-sized mansion in the center of European Bohemianism.
By reputation, Berlin is a city of weirdos, where eccentricity rules and Bohemianism reigns supreme.
But this week, the city unveiled a thoroughly conventional new attraction -- a life-sized "Barbie Dreamhouse," covering about 1,400 square meters. Among other things, visitors can try on clothes (natch); tour her living room and kitchen; and take lunch on the edge of a giant fountain in the shape of a high-heeled show. Everything is, obviously, very, very pink.