Sometimes it takes half a continent and an expensive toaster to realize which culinary commodities you hold dear.

Monette and Mady aren’t just identical?they’re inseparable. The Parisian twins live in the same apartment, dress alike, dance together and share every meal. Swedish photographer Maja Daniels has spent a great deal of time documenting their everyday lives.

Think more like designers: The strategies employed to create a perfectly proportioned bookshelf can also be used to enhance our personal well-being.

Trust, communication, intimacy and independence: the summer issue of Kinfolk explores the essentials of any relationship. Plus, interviews with Junot, Mari Giudicelli and Isabel and Ruben Toledo.

Earning (and wearing) one’s stripes has not always been black and white.

No one thinks about the way light affects us in spaces more than those who work with it. Meet three lighting designers who think in fresh ways and create products we covet.