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The most beautiful butcher’s shop

A more explicit mark was used by the butchers’ guild; a bull’s head with two intersecting meat cleavers was the sign of their profession. At the Art Nouveau butcher’s shop in Bismarckstrasse this sign has been skillfully painted onto the porcelain tiles. The shop with its 30 m2 sales room was opened in 1911. The entire room is covered in coloured tiles showing the different stages in the production of meat and sausages. The original tiles were produced by Villeroy & Boch.