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

A Restless Transplant: James Higginson

Born in Pennsylvania, James Higginson followed his parents’ advice who “like all good parents, wanted me to have a comfortable...

2015 – An FvF Retrospective

We’re passionate about coffee, to the extent where every member of FvF’s staff is professionally trained by Companion Coffee, and...

Milan Design

An Eye For Detail: TYG Spectacles

It’s no wonder then that wearing sunglasses has become second nature to them. “It’s an unwritten rule we Italians have,”...

Link List #41: An End Of Year Special

We’ve scoured the furthest corners of the internet in a flurry of fervent research, reading and analysing a plethora of lists to...

Happy Holidays

To all our readers, guests, and contributors around the world – happy holidays. Whether you’re adventuring abroad, or at home...

Woven Playgrounds: Alexandra Kehayoglou

Kehayoglou was commissioned by Dries Van Noten to carpet the whole runway for his Paris SS15 show and in doing...

Through The Lens: Our Year In Travel Photographs

The travel photography that we feature on FvF is for us some of the most powerful imagery, and each photo...

Companion Magazine #6

Produced by Freunde von Freunden in collaboration with 25hours hotels, Companion magazine is a periodical about the people who shape...

Amsterdam

Experiments In Spatial Dynamics: RAAAF

RAAAF stands for Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances, which doesn’t really prepare one for what’s revealed behind the doors of Shelter 610. A monstrous...

Rome

Making Scents Of The World: Paola Bottai

For the petite 35-year-old perfume is more than a flight of fancy, it’s an obsession. Paola’s sunny studio finds its...

Berlin Photography

The Art of Change: Sati Zech

They have lived together for some months with Sati and her Dalmatian Rudy in her charmingly chaotic apartment in Berlin’s...

Berlin

A Walk on the Wild Side with Niche Berlin

Their expeditions are designed not only to shed new light on established sites, but to introduce participants to places they’ve...

Berlin Food

FvF Cooks with Volker Eichenhofer: Team Lunch

An established fashion photographer, Volker’s foray into cooking has been steadily simmering the last five years—one food blog, periodical ‘supper...

Link List #40

This edition of the link list will whiz you around the world in ten clicks, as you vogue through time...

Music

FvF Mixtape #99 - Venus Dupree

It’s a personal story that culminates with bringing some of the activists and gatekeepers of the New York scene out...

Nieuwe Niedorp

A Family Affair: Bart & Romy de Vries

Their large rural home of pale brick feels sheltered and remote behind an umbrous grove of roses and apples trees....

Berlin

FvF Christmas Pop-Up Shop

Already two weeks in, the store has given us the opportunity to invite our readers into our space, host workshops...

Berlin

Our Relationship With Water: Mustafah Abdulaziz

The photographic project presents images and stories of our global water crisis across regions as diverse as Sierra Leone, the...

Nashville Design

Spinning Yarns: Han Starnes

Instead, the Kentucky native carries out a slightly more urban existence as a fashion designer in Nashville, Tennessee, where she...

Paris

FvF Friends Dinner In Paris

Dean’s a former guest, long-time friend, former agency lead at the award-winning Tender Creative, and co-founder of product design platform...