October 2014 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Florian Jöckel

In 2011 he started, as a self-professed couch potato and a new non-smoker, in Frankfurt’s traditional bike race on the...

Vienna Workplaces

Camille Boyer

For the past 15 years she’s lived in Vienna and her presenceensures that the local scene is a tick more...

Auckland Workplaces

Jamie McLellan

After many years as an expat in London, Milan and Hong Kong, Jamie returned to his homeland with a wealth...

Discovering Austria's vibrant second city, Graz

With a range of cafes, excellent restaurants offering superb dining experiences and hidden art and design secrets, Graz is a...

Los Angeles Workplaces

Raan Parton

Behind their venture lies a philosophy that stems from a need to connect commerce with economic growth as well as...

Berlin

Christian Awe

Today, the former sprayer creates the majority of his paintings in a very different setting – his bright rooftop studio...

Berlin

Uta Grosenick

The smell of printed color on paper, the rustle of pages as they are flipped, the light sensation in the...

Berlin

FvF Cooks with Jessica Prescott: Fresh'n Fast Mexican

The multi-talented New Zealand-born chef has a warm, inviting disposition, taking the time to chat with us as we wandered...

São Paulo

Maurício Arruda

Sometimes it doesn’t take more than a few words for someone’s passion for their work to come through, loud and...

Berlin

Alicia Reuter

Hailing from the US, she, like many in Berlin, came here to see what the art scene was all about....

Moscow Workplaces

Artem Letunov & Alexey Inshakov

In creative industries it is very common for someone to switch between different fields of specialization in order to further...

Modern Escapism: A Discussion at the FvF Apartment

The modern man is venturing into the outdoors in search of adventure without compromising his taste for well-crafted tools and...

Munich Workplaces

Saskia Diez

Her collections have been shown, and loved, in New York, Tokyo, London and at the Berlin Fashion Week. What makes...

Melbourne

Helga Groves

Set within an old industrial sewing factory in Melbourne’s multicultural suburb of Brunswick, lives Australian artist Helga Groves. The open...

Los Angeles

Jonathan Brown

His LEADAPRON retail space – both a gallery and library nestled down a quiet residential street – sits just behind the...

Out of the White Cube: An Intervention by Alexander Levy in the FvF Apartment

Taking art out of the white-walled gallery, rigid institution or flurry of an art fair, and placing it in the...

The Human Body as a Contemporary Language - A Conversation between Adriano Sack & Jeanne-Salomé Rochat

This portrait is part of Companion Magazine, a project developed by FvF for the 25hours Hotels. Adriano: What motivated you and...

Stockholm

Jon Bäcklund & Stina Ekström

In their private lives, they give themselves a rare space to realize their creative impulses. Over the last year these...

Jounieh

Mark Aoun

The distance from his apartment in Jounieh to the highway is about 50 meters. From there it takes 30 minutes...

Hamburg

Bettina Steinbrügge

Bettina Steinbrügge doesn’t have much time on her hands these days. The director of Hamburg’s Kunstverein, who due to her...