From cradle to grave, rituals bind communities and mark the transition from one life stage to the next. This winter, Kinfolk finds new routes through old rites and learns how to celebrate life through ceremony.
This winter, Kinfolk reaches a new milestone: our 50th issue. To celebrate, we’re dedicating it to community and fellow-feeling. We meet inspiring groups of people near and far who’ve come together to connect, create, collaborate and care for one another. We speak with Vivien Sansour, who runs a seed bank outside of Bethlehem, where she works with local farmers to preserve heirloom seeds and, in turn, Palestine’s cultural heritage. In California, we meet the Old Gays—a group of gay elders whose later-in-life friendships and popularity on social media have made them curators of generational knowledge on a massive scale. We join Velociposse—a group of women, trans and nonbinary people—for a leisurely cycle around London, and visit the oldest Quaker meeting house still in use, where people come together to worship in silence. Since 2011 Kinfolk has established itself as a leader in art and culture, design and aesthetics, architecture, and homes and interiors. Our quarterly lifestyle magazine is sold in over 100 countries, published in three languages and makes the is the perfect coffee table magazine or gift for a creative. Featuring inspiring photography, fashion and style, as well as examinations of slow living. Kinfolk is an art and design publication that seeks to promote quality of life and connect a community of creative thinkers.
Kinfolk Issue 43, on sale March 15 2022 Delving into home, work, style and culture, Kinfolk promotes quality of life and connects a community of creative professionals from London to Tokyo.
This summer, learn how to put the poetry back in motion with Kinfolk. The Movement Issue explores how rhythms fast and slow keep our lives moving forward, and celebrates the exceptional individuals using movement as a vehicle for physical prowess, self-expression and social cohesion
There’s no way to predict when we’ll suddenly be confronted with a new pathway in life. For every positive gain attributed to the idea of change, such as self-improvement, bold adventuring or collective hope, there often follows the very human instinct to feel quite the opposite: fear, self-doubt and loss. The latest issue of Kinfolk explores how best to navigate the conflicting forces of change and stability.
Issue Forty-Seven takes a stand against one-off wellness trends and miracle cures and focuses on well-being as an innate balance to be safeguarded. You’ll meet inspiring people for whom the well-being of others is paramount, featuring Walt Odets on the power of therapy, Chani Nicholas and Sonya Passi on financial well-being, Julia Bainbridge on sobriety, and Alice Sheppard on dance as a way to commune with the body—even when it hurts. interviews with fashion icon Farida Khelfa, tattoo artist Dr. Woo, superstar stylist Veneda Carter, and much more.
In Issue Forty-Nine, we set out to explore Scandinavia—but not as an exoticized lifestyle paragon. Instead, we feature a cast of cultural leaders who draw their creative strength from the darker side of the region. We meet pop sensation Tove Lo, who writes searingly honest songs about life’s ugly truths. We speak with famed Swedish painter Karin Mamma Andersson about why she’s drawn to darkness in art. And we catch provocative filmmaker Ruben O¨stlund (Triangle of Sadness) after he’s presided over the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Since 2011 Kinfolk has established itself as a leader in art and culture, design and aesthetics, architecture, and homes and interiors. Our quarterly lifestyle magazine is sold in over 100 countries, published in three languages and makes the perfect coffee table magazine or gift for a creative. Featuring inspiring photography, fashion and style, as well as examinations of slow living, Kinfolk is an art and design publication that seeks to promote quality of life and connect a community of creative thinkers.
Dive into the deep unknown with Kinfolk’s Water Issue. Featuring underwater fashion, summery stories and profiles of people who’ve built their lives around the water, Issue Forty-Eight is an invocation to readers to protect the planet’s most precious resource by rejoicing in its beauty.
Every human engagement with nature will leave its mark. In Issue Forty-Five, we head out into the great outdoors and meet the people thinking about how to mediate these contact moments in fresh and nuanced ways. They include garden creator Piet Oudolf, Snow Peak fashion designer Lisa Yamai, explorer Ella Al-Shamahi and underwater archeologist Ayana Omilade Flewellen. Yoga with Adriene, writing with Zawe Ashton, a Parisian home tour with the founders of Galerie Chenel and a Romain Laprade fashion editorial that brings new flair to the notion of camouflage.
Since 2011 Kinfolk has established itself as a leader in art and culture, design and aesthetics, architecture, and homes and interiors. Our quarterly lifestyle magazine is sold in over 100 countries, published in three languages and makes the perfect coffee table magazine or gift for a creative. Featuring inspiring photography, fashion and style, as well as examinations of slow living, Kinfolk is an art and design publication that seeks to promote quality of life and connect a community of creative thinkers.
"This issue of Kinfolk untangles the meaning of hair"--Page 11
Issue Forty-Six invites you inside 10 inspiring homes where creative lives unfold. Among the extraordinary residences featured, you’ll find remote farmhouses in Japan and England, modernist masterpieces in California and Australia, an artistic guesthouse in Senegal, and two palatial European apartments reimagined in very different ways by their designer occupants. Plus: We meet ascending streetwear icon Samuel Ross, swap recipes with the founder of Smitten Kitchen, and learn the secrets of a successful dance floor with DJ Hunee.
Be it the subject of awkward small talk in the office or the call to arms at an international summit, the weather is a topic of perennial interest and importance: It’s both daily life and global crisis, and the latest issue of Kinfolk takes readings that span the full barometer. Plus: A look inside the studio of architect Giancarlo Valle, the home of interior designer Gergei Erdei and the closet of fashion icon Michelle Elie.
A decade ago, the very first issue of Kinfolk made its way into print. To celebrate this milestone—our tenth anniversary—we’ve refreshed the design of the magazine and aptly turned our gaze toward one of life’s deepest and most searching subjects: the future.
Kinfolk Issue Thirty-Seven, on sale from September 8th 2020
Kinfolk Issue Forty-Two, on sale December 7, 2021
Kindling is the new magazine for people with children from the team who make Kinfolk. Packed with thought-provoking features, fun activities and playful photography and illustrations, it’s a place to explore the fresh perspectives that come with raising a child. For the Body Issue, we’ve teamed up with Wow in the World to answer children’s most curious questions about their bodies, from “What is a vaccine?” to “Why do my teeth fall out?” We also hear from the Swedish social worker who successfully campaigned for the “snippa”—a neutral word to replace the many euphemisms used for female genitals, and report on the important role of parents and caregivers in making children feel good about their bodies. Kindling is made to be read by adults and shared with children. In our fashion shoots, we’re making DIY hi-vis outfits and customizing crutches, wheelchairs and casts. PRAISE FOR KINDLING “A fresh approach to parenthood and a genuinely exciting new launch.”—MagCulture “Clever design and insightful articles... Having fun while making a magazine.”—Monocle “Graphic shapes, quirky illustrations, and the superb photography that Kinfolk is famous for.”—Print Mag “Kindling is a reminder that childrearing can be treated as a lens through which people can view the rest of their lives rather than the defining characteristic.”—Eye on Design
Kindling is the new magazine for people with children from the team who make Kinfolk. Packed with thought-provoking features, fun activities and playful photography and illustrations, it’s a place to explore the fresh perspectives that come with raising a child. PRAISE FOR KINDLING “A fresh approach to parenthood and a genuinely exciting new launch.”—MagCulture “Clever design and insightful articles... Having fun while making a magazine.”—Monocle “Graphic shapes, quirky illustrations, and the superb photography that Kinfolk is famous for.”—Print Mag “Kindling is a reminder that childrearing can be treated as a lens through which people can view the rest of their lives rather than the defining characteristic.”—Eye on Design
