The Birdhain

There are two kinds of people in Berlin: those who get past the Berghain door, and everyone else standing outside in the cold getting shut down. The door guy takes one look and shakes his head. That’s the whole religion of the place. Berghain isn’t a club—it’s rejection as policy, and the rejection is the entire point.

A Berlin designer named Malte Jensen understood this and made The Birdhain: a tiny birdhouse modeled after the actual club, complete with lights that glow in the dark. It’s on eBay right now as an auction, proceeds supposedly going to art projects. The noble framing.

The real joke is this might be the only way most of us ever actually own Berghain. The bidding was around 200 euros when I last checked, with most of the auction still to run. It’s just a box. But a bird can’t get rejected at the entrance, which is more than I can say about the real thing.