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

After our tour of the traditional Florentine crafts, we took an excursion north to the city of Prato. The first...

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

Born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s second most populous city, Matei is often drawn away from his beloved city on his various...

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

They bought the building with friends and Jay tore his apartment down to the studs and rebuilt it, mostly by...

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

Born in Switzerland, he was always inspired by his father’s and grand-fathers’ wood-working techniques. He learned the art of leather...

Mark is better known as ‘The Spoonman’ who chooses to craft traditional wooden spoons manually rather than using his tireless...

On Freunde von Freunden, we’ve been featuring stories on craftsmen from different locations around the world and looking closer into...

When someone signs their e-mails off with the sentence “Sent via synergy between my fingers and phone”, you’re bound to...

Danny Hess opens the front door to The Woodshop, a storefront he shares with three creative friends in the foggy...

Vienna city centre, near Schwedenplatz. Close by a vacant ice cream parlour lies the entrance to the hat manufacturer, Mühlbauer....

In order to describe Xavi Mañosa, one could start pointing out the small cabinet on wheels placed in his living...

On the outskirts of Paris, Jeremy comes to find us at the entrance of his building with his lunch in...

The house located in the middle of Gerichtstraße is one of those places that has the history of its brickwork...

Meet, Ole Hansen, another exhaustingly tall, blonde, and handsome Norwegian, who is the gentleman behind the smokery business Hansen &...