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

Art and community breathe new life into Mallorca’s Casa Balandra

“We treat Casa Balandra like it’s our playground for different concepts, just trying them and seeing where they go.” “We...

Mallorca Community

Memories of a Mallorcan summer captured by photographer Daniel Farò

“A group of friends decided to go to Mallorca at the end of last August as a birthday treat for...

Valencia Art

Valencia-based artist and designer Jaime Hayon believes that hybridity is the mother of invention

“It’s really hard to define what I do,” admits the Spanish-born creative Jaime Hayon. Originally training in industrial design in...

Barcelona Architecture

Born out of the Spanish recession, the architectural studio Mesura carries moderation and respect as its core values

It was during the preceding decades, a time associated with the Spanish housing boom, that Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed and Carlos...

Barcelona Art

The founders of IAM (Internet Age Media) discuss reclaiming control of our futures through collective imagination

It’s like a duet; one will introduce an idea, and after it’s been mulled over for a while, the other...

Valencia Design

Measure for Measure: Jordi López Aguiló imbues soul into domestic objects

After spending time abroad collaborating with prestigious architecture and design firms in Paris and Copenhagen, architect turned designer Jordi completed...

Alcoy Design

Meet Bambú Design Studio, reimagining everyday objects from the remote city of Alcoy

His firm Bambú Studio creates products that are reduced to their most basic function—yet still maintaining character. A small team...

Valencia Travel

Capturing the aesthetic beauty of Santiago Calatrava’s divisive City of Arts and Sciences

However, he has lost the good opinion of many, and even been dubbed ‘the world’s most hated architect’ due to...

Barcelona

Salva López & Yosigo

Thirty-something photographers Salva López and José Javier Serrano, who goes by the name Yosigo, share an academic background in graphic design which...

Madrid

FvF Cooks with Hermanas Arce: BBQ

Once again in Madrid, we met Elena and Ana Arce along with their friends, and blueyellow founders, Caroline Heredia Abernethy...

Madrid

FvF Cooks with Hermanas Arce: Mojitos & Sweet Tart

We filled this summer afternoon with the kinds of pleasures a Sunday should be filled with: laughs, music, chit-chat, the...

Madrid

Marrying Tradition and Innovation: Alvaro Catalán de Ocón

There are no trendy restaurants or shops. No art galleries to be found. In this working class corner of the...

Madrid

Elena & Ana Arce

But most of all, they tell a story about cultivating a curiosity for one’s city. It is not too often that...

Barcelona

Lucía Vergara

Her success with her jewelry line, Après Ski shows, she’s one of those undeniable examples of how sometimes having an...

Barcelona

Caravan Made: An Alfresco Food Truck in Barcelona

Having always dreamt of working on a project together, today it has become a reality through the establishment of an...

Barcelona

Lola Giardino

After steadily working for over a decade towards a traditional career in web design, Lola experienced the dawning realization that...

Barcelona

Ariadna Guirado & Ernest Vidal

Handcrafted products marked “Made in Spain” represent a certain level of quality – specifically with regard to artisanal textiles and...

Barcelona

Manuela Sosa

Manuela Sosa is a florist. Originally from South America, she’s settled in the pastoral hills of Vallvidrera, just outside Barcelona....

Barcelona Fashion

Gori de Palma & Laura Gonzalez

Laura González arrived to Barcelona 11 years ago from Monterrey Mexico. After studying Fine Arts and developing her practice as...

Los Angeles

Naomi Sanders

Landscape designer, Naomi Sanders, has a postcard view of Los Angeles from her studio’s kitchen window in Silver Lake. Rows...