Nina Johnson & Dan Milewski

One of the reasons Nina Johnson and Daniel Milewski moved into a larger house in Miami’s Shorecrest neighborhood was so that they could entertain more. A reason that could sound almost suspicious in Miami, a place mainly – and not unduly – known for its party culture. Since moving to the vibrant southern city from … Read More

Christian Awe

Today, the former sprayer creates the majority of his paintings in a very different setting – his bright rooftop studio in Berlin. Vivid works on canvas dominate his output, but he’s still occasionally able to return to walls – as seen on the mural he executed on a 500sqm building façade in Berlin’s Lichtenberg neighborhood. … Read More

Chris Hackett

He’s a multi-hyphenate artist whose work encompasses metalsmithing, art, construction, writing, survivalism and reality TV. He is the co-founder of the Madagascar Institute, an art collective in Gowanus, Brooklyn, where he and his collaborators create incredibly dangerous, jet-powered carnival rides, make weapons and give welding lessons, among other things. He is fascinated by the idea … Read More

FvF Paperchase

Annual Work Outing is a very unsexy name for quite a fun day. Instead of spending a regular Friday afternoon at the office with our minds already drifting away to the weekends track, we decided to “work” our way through some of our favorite spots in Berlin Mitte. We started off at the Barn, where … Read More

How Architect Kevin Chu and his Wife Giulia Dibonaventura promote sustainable lifestyles in Hong Kong

The couple live 25 minutes by ferry from Downtown Hong Kong, on the car-free section of Lantau Island, Discovery Bay, where so you’ll find tricked-out golf carts buzzing around. The setting is the perfect backdrop for Kevin and Giulia’s home, which reconciles the natural beauty around them and the urban metropolis on the main island. … Read More

Seoul-based light artists Kimchi and Chips conjure form at the edge of materiality

“We received about two calls per week for dinner reservations,” says Elliot Woods referring to the time when the arts studio he runs together with Mimi Son moved to its current location in Paju Book City on the outskirts of Seoul. It was early 2018 and Naver Maps, Korea’s answer to Google Maps, had accidently … Read More

FvF Mixtape #128: Funk Bast*rd

On Singapore’s south shore close to the harbor, in an area called Telok Blangah, Dean Chew set up his headquarters from where he operates his label, while his spatial design studio FUUR is set up in the neighborhood of Jalan Besar. He let us in on how those spheres connect and what locations we should … Read More

Tomi 'Freeman' Friman

One shouldn’t start an intro by listing clichés. However in this case, the impression of Helsinki was so strongly influenced by the freezing cold, clear days, and a vast amount of red wine that it seemed to be impossible not to go there. It simply has to be mentioned how damn cold it was and … Read More

Hassan Hajjaj

A master of many trades, Larache-born artist Hassan Hajjaj has been lauded for the way in which his work turns a distinctive and fresh eye on Moroccan culture. Recently, Hassan has received international acclaim for his radiant photography series Kech Angels, featuring local Marrakechi women on motorbikes, styled in Hassan’s self-designed garments. In the past … Read More

FvF Cooks: Candy on Bone adds new flavor to Berlin's slow food

Delis and corner stores like Kreuzberg’s Candy on Bone harken back to more convivial times, where the goods ordered over the counter were a source of pride for the proprietor—and at best a conversation starter. It’s this sentiment that Contemporary Food Lab Berlin founder Ludwig Cramer-Klett, informal guardian of Berlin’s slow food movement, sought to … Read More