February 2015 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Link List #15

Business of Fashion finds out whether LVMH or Kering is best positioned for growth. Oliver Sachs shares his experience of learning...

São Paulo Design

Illustrator and designer Ana Strumpf's imaginative fusion of styles and patterns

After spending the last four years in New York with her husband, Dennison Ramalho, she came back to her hometown...

Portland Community

Meet The FvF Contributors: Carissa Gallo

Born and raised in the warmth of San Diego’s sun and surf, she traded one gloriously atmospheric landscape for another...

Travel

To Travel is to Live

“To travel is to live,” wrote Hans Christian Andersen. The writer, famous for fairy tales set in worlds of his...

New York City

Sam and Stefanie Wessner

She’s an urban design consultant and Projects Officer at ARCHIVE global, an architecture and public health organization; he’s co-creator of Manhattan’s...

Los Angeles

Diving into the Sustainable Surfing Movement

Surfing is often likened to a spiritual experience. It’s no surprise, then, that some surfers characterize the traditional approach of...

Link List

Link List #14

According to Salon, Silicon Valley and the “sharing economy” will destroy our jobs. Surf legend Kelly Slater is giving us...

Edinburgh Workplaces

Joy Rose

A pot of fresh yarrow, peppermint and raspberry leaf tea brewing in the teapot, the light clear and bright over...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #81

David’s first contacts with the music world included a Rolling Stones concert at the age of seven and an interview...

London

James Fisher

After traveling for four years, James found himself settling in a houseboat within a community of like-minded people living out...

Stockholm

FvF Cooks in Stockholm: Orange-Hued Risotto

One of rice’s most appealing attributes is that it can wear a lot of hats, going from being simple and...

Link List

Link List #13

The New Yorker‘s film critic Anthony Lane takes a swing at the Fifty Shades of Grey film – and pretty...

New York City

Huy Bui

To those familiar with Huy’s path as an architect, designer, and creative thinker, this makes sense. Fascinated with nature and...

Barcelona

Lola Giardino

After steadily working for over a decade towards a traditional career in web design, Lola experienced the dawning realization that...

Vienna Workplaces

Margot Deerenberg

At Packhaus more than 170 people from different fields – including IT, technology, fashion, design, science, crafts and social fields...

Stockholm

FvF Cooks in Stockholm: Roasted Pear Salad

But, we tend to disagree and we’ve enlisted the help of Belén Vazquez Amaro for a case in point. Upon...

Link List

Link List #12

Dazed Digital shares the best of Rotterdam Film Festival. Huffington Post’s Johann Hari writes about the likely cause of addiction...

Berlin

Stephan Tillmans

Stephan wasn’t always so goal-oriented. It was only after two abandoned fields of study that he was able to find...

Munich Workplaces

Florian Holzherr

Privately, the Munich native has fulfilled a very special dream. Specifically, that the architect Andreas Meck created a futuristic workroom...

Stockholm

FvF Cooks in Stockholm: Veggie Crumble

Belén first started her Yoga & Breakfast sessions after someone admired the colorful meal jars she prepared and enjoyed, almost...