craft - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Celebrating a new generation of makers, a female-led Italian design fair thinks outside the artist’s booths

In the historical center of Naples in the south of Italy, Domitilla Dardi and Emilia Petruccelli are creating Edit Napoli,...

Bratislava Design

In the capital of Slovakia, crafting plastics! studio are set on proving bioplastic is ready for mass consumption

Together with her partner and fellow product designer Miroslav Král, they asked the scientist responsible, Pavel Alexy. Alexy and his...

London Design

Weaving Worlds Beyond Words: The unspoken meaning behind Amy Revier's sculptural garments

Amy Revier looks up from the poem she is reading aloud, an introduction of sorts to Isabella DuCrot’s Text On...

Berlin Design

Planted firmly on the ground: Albrecht von Alvensleben creates tables for everyday life

At Bullenberg, free thinkers can find the table that suits their lifestyle and outlast a wide variety of different living...

New York City

Thrown Down: Artist Helen Levi reshapes the way we think about urban ceramicists

The craze hasn’t waned, and while more attention to local, small-scale handmade goods can only be a positive, the hype...

Windhoek Travel

Road Trip Namibia: discovering the beauty and contrast of Africa's best-kept secret

Welcome to Namibia, Africa’s most sparsely populated country. With wide, open spaces dedicated to environmental conservation, Namibia is teeming with...

Berlin Workplaces

Two's Company: the creative partnership of twin sisters Caroline and Valérie Hebel

The two picked up the thread together in Berlin, settling in a studio inside a brick factory turned creative hub...

New York City

Chelsea Miller

There was an accident, she explains, involving an unfinished knife and some heavy machinery; one slip of the wrist and...

Berlin

Strings of Life: Frank Rittwagen

It is a craft of skill, dedication and patience – delicate work, a process of construction, dismantling and reconstruction, that...

Charleston

Michael Moran & Celia Gibson

Michael Moran can show himself into a musty, abandoned barn and excavate a gnarly piece of oak, unseen for one...