The Editors: Frederik Frede of Freunde von Fruenden on Berlin and Creativity
Frederik Frede is founder and creative director of online publication Freunde von Freunden, translating to friends of friends. Since launching in 2009, FvF has documented the lifestyles of international creatives and the spaces they live and work in, via captivating interviews and big, beautiful photography. Things moved quickly and by 2011, they’d published their first […]
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Concept Store Find: Voo Store Berlin
What I like about Berlin is the element of surprise. Buildings go far back from the street, often with three or four back courtyards. It’s where many interesting stores have found their home. And so it is with Voo Store, tucked away from busy Oranienstrasse in Kreuzberg. It makes for a calm and immersive shopping […]
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Restaurant Find: Katz Orange Berlin
An ex-brewery in Mitte has been converted into a restaurant with striking art installations everywhere you look, creating Katz Orange, a farm to table restaurant of the highest quality. Sink into Moorish banquettes with an old school cocktail, crafted from spirits from small batch German distillers, and peruse the menu – so simple yet so […]
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Coffee + Shopping Find: Westberlin Berlin
Head towards Checkpoint Charlie, the top tourist destination in Berlin – then keep walking straight past it, dodging the tourist’s selfie sticks and hen parties’ feather boas. You are going beyond all this to somewhere far more photogenic: Westberlin, “coffeebar & mediashop”. Westberlin is totally at odds with its surroundings: sandwiched between a kitsch baroque […]
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Contemporary Art Museum Find: Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin
1 / 1 ( 2 votes ) Once Germany’s primary rail terminus, the scale of Berlin’s converted Hamburger Bahnhof into a contemporary art museum is fitting given it’s vast collection of works across three major collections that span major art movements since 1960. The museum’s permanent displays, exhibited in this impressive architectural setting, showcase Pop […]
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Berlin city guide: How to blend in with the cool people (or try to)
I jumped at the chance to spend this last weekend in Berlin with Mikee, who had been there all week schmoozing with industry folk at Bread & Butter. I was really in the mood for a dose of Berlin’s attitude; you know, cool, laid-back, edgy yet stylishly hedonistic ”“ the kind of attitude that cool […]
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