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

Constructing a future collectively: How Cucula helps refugees establish a new life in Berlin

Back then, asylum seekers were camped out at Oranienplatz protesting their treatment by the EU. A year later, five of...

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...

Berlin Community

Living Pieces: BUCHHOLZBERLIN work storied wood into objects with character

In their apartment, with its light concrete flooring and breathtaking rooftop terrace, the two creators of furniture manufacturer Buchholzberlin test...

Kurzeme

Lord of His Own Manor: Aigars Bikše

With his trademark bald head, beard, and glasses, Bikše has been a recognizable figure on the Latvian art scene for...

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...

Costa Mesa

Sean Woolsey

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

San Francisco

Danny Hess

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

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...