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

Berlin Art

Diandra Donecker: Female role models in art

“You would think that there are many females in the arts to look up to, but when you get higher...

Cologne Art

Daniel Hug, director of Art Cologne, on the Cologne art scene and the Germans' passion for collecting

Daniel Hug is restless. Homeless. He’d be the first to suggest that of himself. The American with Swiss roots has...

Paris Fashion

Maison Kitsuné's Gildas Loaëc

While some artists may be content to produce their work in isolation, leaving matters of audience and exposure to posterity,...

Capturing the Essence of the Individual

When it comes to snapshots, the highest compliment we can give to the snapper is, “You’ve really captured her.” What...

Milan Design

Marc & Paola Sadler's house of love

When asked when they met, Marc answers immediately “yesterday,” before jovially correcting himself, “no, twenty years ago.” An award-winning designer,...

Berlin Art

Bolt for Bolt: Trading lightning against thread with Julius von Bismarck and Robert Vogdt

Julius is most famous for his creation, the “Image Fulgurator,” which covertly projects images that are only revealed when a...

Berlin Home Stories

Publisher Ricarda Messner on the potential for alternate universes in print

Quite the contrary, they’re actually becoming both more diverse and more sophisticated. For Ricarda Messner, whose magazine Flaneur is often...

Culture editor Anna Sinofzik on how shelves reveal our deepest secrets

But in addition to books arranged in tight rows, record players, stacked dishes, and lots of potential as room partitions,...

Berlin

FvF Christmas Pop-Up Shop

Already two weeks in, the store has given us the opportunity to invite our readers into our space, host workshops...

Koblenz Workplaces

Roman Arnold

As a young man, he was an enthusiastic racing cyclist, and it was his passion for bike racing that first...

Düsseldorf

Jan van de Weyer & Louisa Rachedi

Croissants and coffee are sitting in Jan van de Weyer and Louisa Rachedi’s kitchen. Lavender blooms on the balcony, and...

Saint-Maurice

Catherine Gay Menzel & Götz Menzel

A patio lined with pillars, from an open and curved stone staircase, leads up to Catherine Gay Menzel and Götz...

Berlin

Kelly Robinson

Originally from the United States, she had created the first office space for Airbnb and Couchsurfing before moving to Berlin....

Berlin

Martin Rein-Cano

Martin created his shared apartment 20 years ago in this historical building in Berlin’s Bötzow district, and the landscape architect has...

Berlin

Julius Kranefuss

His manner is genuine and straightforward – whether he’s talking about the future of architecture, his burgeoning art collection or...

São Paulo Design

Illustrator and designer Ana Strumpf's imaginative fusion of styles and patterns

After spending the last four years in New York with her husband, Dennison Ramalho, she came back to her hometown...

Munich Workplaces

Florian Holzherr

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

Freiburg

Andreas Ernst

During his graffiti workshops Andreas realized how much fun it was for him to teach. Today, he’s a teacher for...

Zürich

Jeannette & Frank Urech

Design is in the blood of Jeannette and Frank Urech. Frank is an interior architect and industrial designer, Jeannette worked...

Berlin

David Fischer

Spontaneity and trust is what David Fischer regards as the key factors in creating interesting portraits. As a professional photographer...