The village of Neuenkirchen is located in the Lüneburger Heide, an area with sandy ground, famous for it's good Heidekartoffeln, it's potatoes. The local comittee - invited by the Kunstverein Springhornhof from Neuenkirchen - voted for making a product to keep a small amount of potatoes, about two and a half kilograms. In the neighbouring small town Soltau felt is produced; felt is light tight and breathable and a good material to store potatoes. The Berlin designers Fuchs + Funke and Michael Lehner thought about a potato container made of felt, their pattern is sewed by the trained tailor Margitta Stölpe from the village of Tewel, a neighbouring village of Neuenkirchen.

Fuchs + Funke and Michael Lehner, Berlin (www.fuchs-funke.de)

Margitta Stölpe, Tewel

Röders Textiles, Soltau