A friend once made me seriously jealous of Germans when he described their perfectly designed windows and moderately priced but sexily utalitarian cutlery. How wonderful to live in a country where quality is evident in everyday basic gear. They are so the Japanese of Europe (without the cool craft books). Okay, I have a bit of a “basics” fetish. But check out this VW factory in Dresden, aren’t the Germans just the coolest?.
dresden vw factory
I think that is where they probably film all their “we’re in the VW factory” commercials (and maybe some of the IKEA ones too!*), maybe all the other VW factories are dank and dingy holes.

For more cool worksites: 10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces and Eric Staller’s Conference Bike! (workcover incident waiting to happen?).

* Swedes, Germans, same diff.