Kinfolk, Volume 62 – Craft

Delving deeply into home, work, style and culture, Kinfolk promotes quality of life and connects a global community of creative professionals from London to Tokyo. Since 2011, Kinfolk has become a leading lifestyle authority with a dynamic mix of print and online media, including a quarterly magazine sold in over 100 countries in four languages, daily posts on Kinfolk.com, bestselling books, plus international events and a gallery space in the heart of Copenhagen.

Printed four times a year, Kinfolk magazine is translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean and seen by a readership of 170,000 25- to 35-year-olds. Mixing long-form journalism, interviews and shorter essays with concept-driven visual stories from contributors across the globe, Kinfolk magazine fosters a sense of curiosity about the art of living.

In this issue:

In Issue Sixty-Two, Kinfolk explores the world of craft and the skill, patience and ingenuity behind the objects we live with. From centuries-old techniques to contemporary experiments in making, we meet the people preserving, reinterpreting and advancing their chosen crafts.

We visit Hermès’ Ateliers Horizons, where artistic director Axel de Beaufort oversees the creation of extraordinary bespoke objects, and the historic Swedish weaving studio founded by Märta Måås-Fjetterström in 1919. Malian artist Aboubakar Fofana shares his decades-long pursuit of the 12 shades of indigo, while ceramicist Claudia Lau welcomes us into her studio to explore the unpredictable art of glazing. We also meet Deborah Needleman, the former editor of The New York Times Style Magazine who left publishing to pursue the traditional craft of basketry.

Elsewhere, we discover the techniques and traditions behind metalwork, carpentry, quilting and watchmaking. We also tour a Northern California ranch shaped by utopian ideals and ask artist Maurizio Cattelan how a banana taped to a wall became a work of art worth more than $6 million.