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

Berlin

FvF Cooks: Indian with a Twist

As he kneads dough for the Indian-style focaccia he’s preparing as part of an FvF Team Lunch, he talked to...

Link List

Link List #26

In honour of our new arrivals at the FvF office, check out this video on the first 21 days of...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #89

Evolutionista (aka Griffin Crafts) is no stranger to his environment. Inspired by the sounds of long walks with his dog...

Berlin Fashion

Antonia Siegmund & Matthias Last

Antonia, a Central Saint Martin’s graduate, and Matthias, founder of design bureau Studio Last, started their elegant, understated and deceptively simple...

Los Angeles Food

Jessica Koslow's Sqirl

What started in 2010 with seasonal jams has now become one of the most popular spots to eat in Los...

Paris

FvF Cooks: Fika with Vetebullar Buns

It’s ingrained in Swedes from a young age that coffee breaks are serious business, so much so that they even...

Berlin Music

Aron Ottignon

The expat scene: supposedly gentrifying Berlin one curly moustache and heavily-accented “Sprechen Sie Englisch?” at a time, inciting journalists everywhere...

Authenticity in a Digital Era

During Gallery Weekend, ascribe, the Berlin-based digital art registry where artists can consign, loan and transfer digital works, invited friends,...

New York City

Henry Hargreaves

His apartment, three stories up, contains a hallmark or two of Brooklyn living: a projector stands in for a television...

Berlin

Dylan Watson

All it took was one spoonful of creamy emker porridge fragrant with orange zest to make all that dampened grumbling...

Link List

Link List #25

In June, Pangea will release an EP, “New Shapes in the Air”, check out some clips on SoundCloud. The Cut...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #88

Intriguingly named Should I Lie With You, Should I Lie To You, it’s full of sounds that could flow through...

Berlin

Martin Rein-Cano

Martin created his shared apartment 20 years ago in this historical building in Berlin’s Bötzow district, and the landscape architect has...

San Francisco

Jay Nelson

They bought the building with friends and Jay tore his apartment down to the studs and rebuilt it, mostly by...

Preview: Companion Magazine 04

Companion Magazine is a periodical about the people who shape our cities, created in collaboration with 25hours Hotels and produced by Freunde...

Berlin

April Showers Bring May Flowers

In the Freunde von Freunden apartment Marsano, Berlin’s gorgeous flower and interior business and one of the pioneers of this...

Sydney

Curator and archivist Wendy Whiteley welcomes the public to her luxurious studio and home

Carefully assessing the surrounding architecture and facades would indicate its former life as a node of mixed industry and affordable...

Berlin Workplaces

Chris Onton & Shawn Barber

Shawn, originally from Vancouver, is the co-founder of Companion Coffee, alongside Chris Onton of Perth. Their mission in Berlin –...

Berlin

FvF Cooks Team Lunch: Indian Curry

So with that in mind, five members of the FvF team took to the chopping boards to dish up their...

Link List

Link List #24

A great mixtape to listen to this week is Soulection’s latest radio show. On the New York Magazine, Steve Duenes...