Home Stories - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

In the Laurel Canyon with Iranian-born, Los Angeles-based stylist Maryam Malakpour

Malakpour, who is a fashion stylist and creative director, says the car is perfect for Sunday drives around Mulholland’s winding...

Paris Architecture

Antonin Ziegler: Industrial yet serene residences

“What makes Le 107 work is a mix of verticality and openness. It only has a 28 square-meter footprint, but...

Los Angeles Architecture

Andrea Lenardin: The shifting meaning of things

At least Andrea Lenardin likes to think so—despite the attribution of a different value throughout time—“the things are also always...

Berlin Home Stories

International techno DJ Camea continues to challenge the boys’ club mentality of the music industry

We sit in Camea’s home in Wedding, away from the clubs lining the debaucherous streets of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg where Camea can...

Stockholm Home Stories

Exploring immigrant identity through music with Swedish-Chilean DJ Cristian Dinamarca

Cristian has been a mainstay on the stages of Stockholm’s biggest clubs. He has his own record label called Staycore....

London Art

The free-spirited collector and dealer with an eye for the new, Mimi Lipton leads one colorful life

The colors of the tiny tiger rug perfectly match the Valentino floral sneakers she is wearing. With flashes of magenta...

London Art

Talking tattoo’s crucial cultural significance with Maxime Plescia-Büchi, founder of Sang Bleu

To describe Maxime as “multidisciplinary” is tragically reductive. During the interview he met with a new client, interviewed someone for...

Berlin Home Stories

Why Anna Schunck and Marcus Werner choose to live in the countryside but still crave time in Berlin-Neukölln

In this area, just an hour’s drive from Berlin, the couple bought an old farmhouse. Discovered online one hungover Sunday...

Melbourne Architecture

Creating walls out of canvases and cardboard chairs with Australian architect John Henry

John’s high ceiling and impressive window facade manage to offset the five levels of his home, the ‘Research House’, that...

Milan Art

Toiletpaper's Pierpaolo Ferrari

“It’s the surprise, you know? Part of the joy of working with us is the unexpected. You don’t know what...

London Home Stories

Photographer Vicky Grout exposes London’s grime scene one rave at a time

The explanation and our following conversation is punctuated by sudden, excited finger-points out of the window at passers-by and meaningful...

Rochester Design

Josh Owen advocates for socially relevant and impactful design

His approach to design is seemingly effortless—owed to Josh’s intuition for natural interactions and decades of experience in design. Aside...

Sydney Art

Geometric abstraction forms the basis of modern sculptor Dion Horstmans' labor-intensive work

The workplace of the New Zealand-born, Sydney-based sculptor is a large, high-ceilinged space in an industrial cul-de-sac of Sydney’s inner...

Amsterdam Design

Textile development, technological innovation and musical intervention with Dutch designer Borre Akkersdijk

From a vibration-integrated pillow created to help dementia patients communicate to a music-playing, Wi-Fi and GPS tracker-incorporated onesie for SXSW,...

New York City Design

In New York’s West Village, Caroline and Michael Ventura design for living in their home, retail and workspace

Phone calls flood in to their West Village concept store, Calliope (pronounced “kah-lie-oh-pee”), not just from savvy shoppers looking to...

Montclair Design

Lance McGregor on finding inspiration in his Garden state surroundings

This chance encounter led Lance to pursue a degree at Victoria University’s School of Design in his hometown of Wellington,...

Los Angeles Art

Caren Motika and Adam McPherson bring healing arts to the LA community with the space, Window of the Sky

Their humble residence was originally conceived as a test model: Built by a man who made a successful career as...

Berlin Home Stories

Anna Lehmann-Brauns captures light and color in her nostalgic images of lifeless interiors

The empty interiors, that we usually see inhabited, cast their own particular spell, as we ourselves experience when we visit...

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...

Stockholm Architecture

Mind over matter: Allan Spiegel on building a family home from the ground up

“I’m not an architect,” says Allan Spiegel, a self taught interior consultant who works with some of the biggest retail...