Every city has them: unique, free-spirited people that add color to their city. Distinctive personalities that thrive on the energy that their city gives them, and contribute to their city’s singular character. Frame/Work, a MENDO / Union initiative, is about these remarkable people and their urban habitat, how they see the world, and the lifestyle that makes it their own.

Pages

224

Language

English, Dutch

Release date

January 2019

Size

210x288x35 mm

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Material

Hardcover

Publisher

MENDO

Weight

1500 grams

This is Frame/Work: a tribute to the daredevils, whose stories deserve to be read, heard, documented and framed

Frame/Work captures colorful characters and their inspiring stories. They live every day as if it were their last, in their city, which lives in every fibre of their being. You may recognize them, but maybe you’ll recognize yourself in them as well. Frame/Work is photographed by Jacob van Rozelaar and is written by Claire van de Graaff.

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We meet chef Nigel van der Horst (1990) at the chic hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, where he had to be for an event. We’ve only just sat down when he slides a cocktail under our noses and starts talking. And starts to laugh – he seems to be able to do three things at the same time. That’s extremely rare for men. Regardless of the subject, there’s fun, love and enthusiasm in all he says. There’s another cocktail, okay two, and Nigel talks and laughs a little more. Even if we’d wanted, it would have been difficult to interrupt him. Why would we want to?

The best things only happen as soon as you veer off the beaten path. As you dare to start coloring outside the lines, or maybe even without any at all – regardless of if that what happens next was what you expected. But that takes courage. A lot of it.

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“The customers here are honest and straightforward. Dutch people love to complain, but if they do so here, nine times out of ten it's justified.”
- Rein Rambaldo in Frame/Work

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We happened to know a few of those gutsy pioneers and flamboyant figures who had the courage to change their lives.

Those who wrote their own stories, sometimes from left to right, sometimes the other way around, but always with spirit and abandon, not afraid to rip out a page and start over. Stories that are worth telling.

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‘ You can’t sell bullshit here. That doesn’t fit the city.’

Sebastiaan van Bokkel

For this book we followed them closely, on foot or by bike. They took us on adventures that have no end in sight yet, not even close. Through narrow alleys and dense forests, over squares and canals, past old loves and sweet memories.

It turned into a book about beer and coffee, about fashion and design, about food and drink. About city and nature, tranquility and turmoil, day and night. Moreover, it turned into a book about dreaming and daring. About turning left even if the whole world tells you to turn right. About taking a leap of faith. Because that’s what they did. It turned into a collection of spirited stories about passion, craftmanship, love and guts, of people who took their lives into their own hands.

This is Frame/Work: a tribute to the daredevils, whose stories deserve to be read, heard, documented and framed.

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Featuring
Elmer Oomkens & Francesco Grassotti, Nigel van der Horst, Lydian Zoetman & Michel Ordeman, Emile van der Staak, Silke Tijkotte, Gunifort Uwambaga, Daan Smeltzer, Clarissa Slingerland, Rein Rambaldo, Sebastiaan van Bokkel, Ralph Behouden, Annemoon Geurts, Rogier de Haan, Britt van der Does.