The spring issue of Kinfolk examines the nuances of free time, its rituals and rhythms and its capacity to reinvigorate. Rather than advising how to fill 48 hours, the issue offers insight into why we should fill our weekends, and how doing so can lead to personal fulfillment.
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In an industry distracted by just-so austerity and asceticism, Dimore Studio's Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci are waving a flag for indulgence.
Humble, hard-working and taking on Hollywood: Rising actor Elisa Lasowski talks to Pip Usher.
On the cool early days of Spring, the weekend is a time when it’s better not to fight ennui, but embrace it.
A British musician offers advice on how to harness massive ambition: Do not yield to self-doubt.
If the 40-hour work week feels long, remind yourself that the weekend is even longer.
Dieter Rams discusses the people and principles that have made him a design legend.
Why is it that humans can perceive a million colors but only remember a fraction of them?
Rereading books is like meeting old friends: The characters we thought we knew challenge us to incorporate fresh understanding.
Touching countless readers with theories on love, language and literature, Roland Barthes turned his attention to an unlikely material: plastic.
Rossana Orlandi has seven decades of Saturdays under her belt. In Milan, we spend one more in her company.
When we trace back the origins of the hourglass, we can’t find conclusive evidence of its existence before the 14th century.
Used to considering the human body in all of its forms, fashion designer Jonathan Anderson highlights disobedient ones as curator of a new exhibition.
Adia Trischler speaks about life on set and the difference between having it all and doing it all.
Turn on, tune in, zone out: The pleasures and phenomena of half listening.
Clean sheets, fluffy towels and long-lost socks: an ode to the small triumphs of laundry day.
In a world filled to the brim with complex coffee-making machinery, the classic Moka Express remains a much-loved staple.
Creatives from six different cities tell the tales of their weekend adventures.
Do other people make us laugh, or are we laughing at other people? A comedian offers advice on where to draw the line.
How is it that throughout history, similar ideas have often cropped up in different locations and, at times, seemingly simultaneously?
In 1968, at the height of the civil rights movement, Arthur Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Is there a difference between chance and coincidence? Alex Anderson explores whether happenstance can ever really “just happen.”
Composer Leonard Bernstein spent the summer of 1967 in Ansedonia, a sun-washed Roman town on the Italian coast.
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