We believe that capturing creatives in their home environments gives intimate and authentic insights into their practice. It’s a format we established when Friends of Friends first started in 2009, and is an approach we maintain to this day.
(EN) A look inside the infamous Williamsburg lofts at 475 Kent and those that remain after two decades of gentrification
(EN) We spend a day in the English countryside with the artist, famed for his collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson
(EN) The Our Bartlett creator on staying grounded with everyday rituals and designing for the future with old school techniques
(EN) Portuguese Visual artist Joana Astolfi creates imaginary worlds from inanimate objects and the results are mesmerizing
(EN) If the COC Design founder has his way, Discovery Bay will be the greenest quarter of the region
(EN) The DJ, Producer and Neverwhere Records founder embarks on her newest venture: motherhood
(EN) The electronic producer shares his mellow and humble brand of self-possession
(EN) Krøyer–Sætter–Lassen’s eclectic portfolio stretches from furniture to lighting, homeware to hammers
(EN) From fashion collaborations to educational books, the artist explains how she decides where to draw the line
(EN) The energetic octogenarian talks modern art, jewelry, and never wearing black
(EN) How the Dalston-based tattoo parlor and brand bridges the gaps between fashion, fine art, tattoo, and publishing—to a hip hop beat
(EN) The journalist and producer seeking potential in the good life of urban and rural dwelling
(EN) Nestled amongst the myrtles in the Victorian bush is a glass walled greenhouse
(EN) The provocative imagination of the colorful aesthete comes to life in his triplex studio
(EN) How the prodigious twenty year old and her analog camera are capturing the look, sound and feel of today’s grime scene like no other
(EN) The designer, educator and author shares how he creates objects that transcend materiality
(EN) The creatively lucrative and entirely energetic artist casting shadows with angular pieces made of steel
(EN) The Amsterdam creative whose experimental studio is reimagining the future of fashion
(EN) Calliope, the concept store venture that fosters the community in a four-storey multifunctional space
(EN) Minimal, natural and whimsical – the New Jersey-based designer explains what sets his work apart
(EN) How a carpenter and an acupuncturist built a treatment center balancing practicality with poetry in Eagle Rock
(EN) The necessity of green spaces beyond having Instagram-able interiors
(EN) The Berlin photographer shooting memory spaces rather than architectural images
(EN) In the southernmost part of Provence, the founder of the International Festival of Fashion and Photography discusses his honest approach to doing what he loves
(EN) A celebration of the expressive qualities that only a room-filling, traditional Scandinavian floor loom can bring
(EN) The interior consultant who entered the world of architecture and construction, on his own (and nature’s) terms
(EN) Nothing distinguishes the celebrated architecture of the Fagan’s more than their own cherished home
(EN) The award-winning designer and his partner share their collaborative and playful approach to design
(EN) The DJ and producer on how he manages to tour the world and still spend time with his kids
(EN) The Icelandic musician and producer looks back on thirty years of music making and ahead to inventive soundscapes
(EN) The co-owners of General Store on luck, Los Angeles and their retail love story
(EN) The former electrician turned lamp designer sparks his imagination with a tour of his adopted city
(EN) Berlin-based publisher and founder of Flaneur bridges the gap between online and offline
(EN) Inside the musical life and creative process of the intrepid designer
(EN) At home in Ventura, the surfer, skater, and always-adventuring photographer shoots from the heart
(EN) Dutch entrepreneurs Karina Sandvliet and Kim Rense make their mark in strikingly different ways
(EN) Swapping Berlin for Silicon Valley, the designer shares the scenes that shape local life
(EN) Why nature, family, and an independent brewing venture had a greater pull than a pro-surfing career
(EN) Designer Katja Buchholz and her husband Alex Meschkowski on their love of this exceptional material