Kirsten Hermann

Kirsten Hermann ist der lebende Beweis für die erfolgreiche und einzigartige Verbindung von Hobby, Leidenschaft, Familie und Beruf in der Großstadt. Betritt man Kirstens Wohnung, befindet man sich sofort in einer angenehmen Welt von Styling, Mode und Fotografie. Eine grosse gemütliche Berliner Altbauwohnung gefüllt mit Leben, Kunst und Familie. An den Wänden hängen Werke vergangener … Read More

In the capital of Slovakia, crafting plastics! studio are set on proving bioplastic is ready for mass consumption

Together with her partner and fellow product designer Miroslav Král, they asked the scientist responsible, Pavel Alexy. Alexy and his team had just registered a related patent and his answer was simple: Join our laboratory and we will invent something together. Five years later, following numerous experiments with Alexy and his team at the Slovak … Read More

Westley Nunn & Diana Wu

But product designers Westley Nunn and Diana Wu are trying to draw the people of this bustling metropolis out of their cars and onto their bikes. We met up with the couple, founders of 1.61 Soft Goods, to discuss their history, designs and LA’s changing commuter culture. What started with a backpack has now grown into … Read More

Julie Rouby

Creative agent and stylist Julie Rouby lives among natural light and the sound of the soft purring of her cat Raoul in Paris’ le Marais district. Originally from the South of France, she evokes a sunny energy and, as she told us over an afternoon together, continues to put rosemary on everything she cooks. Once … Read More

Jane Badler

With the right combination of glamour and mystique, Melbourne-based Jane Badler exudes positivity. Having built a successful career as an actress and songstress, performing was always on the agenda. Growing up in America and moving around as a child, singing and playing musical instruments was one constant. Her classic beauty saw her selected to represent … Read More

Gunnar Rönsch & Stephen Molloy

The affiliation between sexual satisfaction and the cultural asset of a hobby room, why mathematicians often tend to commit suicide, how the headquarters of the pirate party should be built – notions such as these are heavily discussed by architects and product designers, Gunnar Rönsch and Stephen Molloy. The founders of Fundamental Group not only … Read More

Rethinking the domestic space with New York founder of TRNK, Tariq Dixon

“We lived these fleeting and transient lives as young people in New York City and never spent any time at home, and that became exhausting,” Tariq Dixon says about the process that lead himself and Nick Nemechek to found TRNK, a online retailer that capitalizes on evolving trends in e-commerce to reach a new, design-conscious … Read More

Norm Architects' Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen on stripping back design to its bare essentials

His design philosophy is one now synonymous with the region, based on taking existing architectural norms and stripping these down to the most essential elements. In 2008, along with Kasper Rønn, he founded Copenhagen’s Norm Architects, a studio that, despite its name, has an output that intersects the creative fields. Anything from residential properties in … Read More

FvF Cooks: Moqueca de Peixe

In the fourth episode of our FvF Cooks with Sabine Hueck, the Freunde von Freunden team are heading to dinner in her atelier. The dish that Sabine shares with us this time takes us away to the North-Eastern Brazilian paradise, Bahia. There, it is said, you can find the original version of Brazil’s national dish: … Read More

By subverting the expected artist Katie Stout takes a welcome humanistic approach to her art

In a vast warehouse in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, Katie crafts couches out of various textiles and her signature lady lamps out of clay, celebrating womanhood with colors and textures in the form of functional pieces. Katie’s creative process is bold, experimental, and constantly evolving—during our studio visit she was feverishly finding a way … Read More