Conny Mirbach - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Alexander Stein brings a fresh perspective to preserving the tradition of Armagnac in Gascony

At the heart of Southwest France, only two hours by car from Toulouse, there’s a town called Éauze. There, surrounded...

Lucerne Verona

From waste to wonder: meet the mastermind crafting sound absorbing architecture from plastic bottles

From a prototype-packed design lab in Lucerne, Coco Lombarte leads a team that’s closing the loop on spatial auditory design,...

Munich Food

Potato aficionados Dominik Klier and Theo Lindinger share comforting Japanese stew recipe

Nikujaga: Japanese beef and potato stew Ingredients Method Thank you to Dominik Klier and Theo Lindinger, founders of Caspar Plautz,...

Munich Mixtapes

FF Mixtape #184: Record label and DJ Duo, Public Possession curates a playlist of hidden gems

Public Possession is a record label and shop based in Munich, founded by Valentino Betz and Marvin Schumann, with the...

Munich Design

Public Possession: Staying Relevant in Music & Design

Oftentimes, the advice we’re given, particularly when attempting to transform a creative vision into a career, let alone into a...

Copenhagen

Redesigning the future of the office workspace with NORNORM founder Anders Jepsen

Just as no person is an island, no chair, table, or any piece of furniture exists in isolation. Each object...

Berlin Architecture

Effortless design: Mark Randel’s architecture

After 23 years working with David Chipperfield Architects, Mark Randel now focuses on his eponymous studio in Berlin, where he...

Link List

Link List #101: Anti-fascist metal music, Burning Man’s Instagram accusation, and a low-lying cloud in Kensington

Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this week’s Link List, but if you’ve still got an internet itch to scratch,...

Mangfall Valley

Shinrin-yoku is the Japanese therapy inviting you to bathe in a forest

In Upper Bavaria’s Mangfall Valley, the forest is still surprisingly lush. There has hardly been any deforestation in the water...

Munich Art

Ana Saraiva's surreal aesthetic

The Brazilian-born artist describes her work as “a dance on the fountain of admiration,” but like many of the painters...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #125: Public Possession

These days, DJs are worshipped like the pop idols from our teens. Partygoers throng around the mixing-deck stage, a platform...

Munich Community

Meet the FF Contributors: Conny Mirbach

Tagging along on skate tours with friends, Conny began documenting the stories of those around him. Today, he still prefers...

Munich Architecture

Steffen Werner: Constructing space like a sculptor

It’s the old debate of whether form or function comes first, only that nowadays, some may call it constructivism versus...

Le Brassus

Night Vision: Dan Holdsworth’s luminous scenes expose the peripheries of nature

Born to a scientist father and ceramicist mother, the British artist has been no stranger to unions of technology and...

Munich Workplaces

Florian Holzherr

Privately, the Munich native has fulfilled a very special dream. Specifically, that the architect Andreas Meck created a futuristic workroom...

Munich

Niels Jäger

Shortly after graduating, together with friends Sascha Arnold and Steffen Werner, he opened the renowned Edmoses bar in 2006, which,...

Munich Workplaces

Saskia Diez

Her collections have been shown, and loved, in New York, Tokyo, London and at the Berlin Fashion Week. What makes...