City Guide - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Guadalupe Garcia’s interdisciplinary approach to hospitality blurs the lines at Buenos Aires culture hub Casa Cavia

Staff prep behind the bronze and marble bar, blooms are gathered together at the petit florist, and young women are...

Companion Magazine #13: A Meander Through Dusseldorf and Cologne

Companion have been busy turning our sights onto some of the eclectic communities of the Rhineland and consider the differences...

Düsseldorf Architecture

Sampling Japanese culture with the locals in Düsseldorf’s Little Tokyo

The table looks like a chaotic setting from a scene in an anime show: countless small plates and cups, hardly...

Berlin

Reigniting the dazzle of a roaring era with a tour of West Berlin

Reigniting the dazzle of a roaring era with a tour of West Berlin Boris Pofalla and Robert Nippoldt trace the...

Companion Magazine #12: Focus on Culture’s many aspects

If you are a reader of Companion, you know we are drawn to art, design, fashion and gastronomy, music, travel...

Berlin

Companion Magazine #11: Munich for Beginners

Munich is known for its regal history, grand architecture and a somewhat Italian flair. The city has a thriving cultural...

Zürich Travel

Exploring Zurich’s Melting Pot in The Langstrasse Quarter

A mix of cultures, the red light district, the party mile, and gentrification are buzzwords that describe the area well...

Paris Travel

All the Light We Cannot See: Discovering the Unsung Wonders of the French Capital

Alex did his Ph.D. on the ground covered in our tour, which traces the path of the ancient Rue du...

Seoul

Uncovering Seoul’s budding skate scene with Jin Yob Kim

Seoul’s eclectic character becomes evident as one wanders through the bustling streets: local elderly women selling vegetables and grains on...

Lisbon Art

How individual creative projects shape Lisbon’s community and cultural scene: Part II

The second part of our urban journey introduces us to two street artists who treat the city’s surfaces as their...

Vienna

Cultivating a city: How inventive urban production is gaining ground in Vienna

Our tour of urban production in the city begins here in Brigittenau, the 20th district. Manuel Bornbaum and Florian Hofer...

Berlin

Berlin City Guide: Mitte

Mitte, Berlin’s city center, is home to a medley of architecture and cultural sites that tell just a portion of...

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...

Leipzig Workplaces

Titus Schade

No, it’s not art. Taking a closer look it turns out that the whole heap is bits of masking tape...

Hamburg

Krzysztof Candrowicz

The latest is Hamburg, where he shares a Bauhaus flat in Hammerbrook with a community of seven others, and where...

Berlin

Dylan Watson

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

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 Community

FvF Explores: The Modernist Berlin with Artist Sunah Choi

Her journey up until this point has been defined by her interest in seeking out new horizons and an unwavering...

Rotterdam Travel

FvF Explores: Rotterdam Rising

Still, it takes an insider to discover the real gems of “Roffa,” as locals like to call their hometown. “It’s...

Frankfurt

Florian Jöckel

In 2011 he started, as a self-professed couch potato and a new non-smoker, in Frankfurt’s traditional bike race on the...