November 2016 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

November 2016 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

November 2016

Chris Sharp and the Barbican’s antidote to sonic snobbery
London Music

Chris Sharp and the Barbican’s antidote to sonic snobbery

When asked for a favorite example of disparate threads being pulled together to create something magical, Chris cites the 2014...
Three Dimensional Utopia: Werner Aisslinger and the new age of home technology
Munich

Three Dimensional Utopia: Werner Aisslinger and the new age of home technology

Werner’s work moves across architecture and industrial design, embracing innovation and new technologies in response to a rapidly changing world....
The growing spaces between us as tech monopolizes the public sphere
Architecture

The growing spaces between us as tech monopolizes the public sphere

The first pressure is the need to encourage and provide for a constant flow of international workers and companies through...
Notes from the Road: Alex Strohl is Alive in Alaska
Alaska Travel

Notes from the Road: Alex Strohl is Alive in Alaska

That Alaska is Alex’s favourite place to photograph comes as no surprise: The landscape is vast and disparate, a composition...
Intern: The platform inviting creative industries to invest in youth, and prosper
Community

Intern: The platform inviting creative industries to invest in youth, and prosper

“For three months you do a load stuff and by the end of it you’re doing the work that someone...
Mind over matter: Allan Spiegel on building a family home from the ground up
Stockholm Architecture

Mind over matter: Allan Spiegel on building a family home from the ground up

“I’m not an architect,” says Allan Spiegel, a self taught interior consultant who works with some of the biggest retail...
New Age: Recens Paper founder Elise By Olsen on defying generational genres
Berlin

New Age: Recens Paper founder Elise By Olsen on defying generational genres

But for the Oslo-based teenager, it’s irrelevant. “It’s too bad because I think Recens would still be good if I...
The Artists are Present: Villa Lena is the Tuscan retreat we’ve all been dreaming about
Tuscany Art

The Artists are Present: Villa Lena is the Tuscan retreat we’ve all been dreaming about

Opened in 2013 year by Lena Evstafieva, her partner Jerome Hadey, and Lionel Bensemoun, the villa is in fact several...
Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: Gwen and Gawie Fagan on creating their dream house
Cape Town Architecture

Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: Gwen and Gawie Fagan on creating their dream house

The house itself and most things in it are handmade by couple Gawie and Gwen, their son and three daughters....
Link List #58: Unicorns of the sea, an art museum on the moon, and Leonard Cohen's final interview
Link List

Link List #58: Unicorns of the sea, an art museum on the moon, and Leonard Cohen's final interview

Thanks for reading! We hope our links inspire you and give you a small window into what the FvF office...
The Poetics of Smaller Spaces: Architect Oke Hauser on the future of urban cohabitation
Berlin Architecture

The Poetics of Smaller Spaces: Architect Oke Hauser on the future of urban cohabitation

Available housing cannot keep up to pace with the rate at which people continue to arrive. It’s a poor state...
The city as the ultimate terrain: Jörg Haas takes on the challenges in fashion for urban spaces
Berlin Fashion

The city as the ultimate terrain: Jörg Haas takes on the challenges in fashion for urban spaces

Young, trend-oriented city-dwellers, irked by fellow citizens influencing urban crosswalk scenes with their quirky hiking outfits, have long held the...
Marc & Paola Sadler's house of love
Milan Design

Marc & Paola Sadler's house of love

When asked when they met, Marc answers immediately “yesterday,” before jovially correcting himself, “no, twenty years ago.” An award-winning designer,...
FvF Mixtape #112: Rain Dog
Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #112: Rain Dog

The term, stemming from the iconic Tom Waits album “Rain Dogs,” is also where producer Samuel Evans derives the name...
Any Given Sunday: DJ Marcel Dettmann on life beyond the decks
Berlin Home Stories

Any Given Sunday: DJ Marcel Dettmann on life beyond the decks

It is almost entirely dark, dense with artificial fog and cigarette smoke. The beat is fast and overpowering, hypnotically luring...
Clear cut: A look at Felicia Ferrone’s purposeful Milanese-inspired designs
Chicago Design

Clear cut: A look at Felicia Ferrone’s purposeful Milanese-inspired designs

Currently based in Chicago, Felicia’s brand fferrone allows her to constantly reinvent archetypes through her fundamental approach to design. Her...
Bolt for Bolt: Trading lightning against thread with Julius von Bismarck and Robert Vogdt
Berlin Art

Bolt for Bolt: Trading lightning against thread with Julius von Bismarck and Robert Vogdt

Julius is most famous for his creation, the “Image Fulgurator,” which covertly projects images that are only revealed when a...
The Jungle Beat: Creating electronic beats in the Malaysian Rainforest

The Jungle Beat: Creating electronic beats in the Malaysian Rainforest

Few would pick the rainforest as the first place to test this theory, but an opportunity to do just that,...
The Light Fantastic: Ini Archibong places his tech-focused designs into a mythical realm
Basel Design

The Light Fantastic: Ini Archibong places his tech-focused designs into a mythical realm

Ini’s charisma and insight compliments his natural design talent. Influenced by fantastical worlds and mystical scenarios, his collections often aim...
Norm Architects' Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen on stripping back design to its bare essentials
Copenhagen Architecture

Norm Architects' Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen on stripping back design to its bare essentials

His design philosophy is one now synonymous with the region, based on taking existing architectural norms and stripping these down...