Photogenic friends gathered in fields of clover. Long-haired dads in denim jackets cutting down Christmas trees in snowy forests. Camping recipes for Dutch-oven cornbread and spicy dandelion greens. Like a cross between Martha Stewart Living and your coolest cousin’s Instagram feed, its pages evoked a world of wind-swept daydreams: Maine lighthouses perched above cranberry bogs. When Kinfolk magazine emerged in 2011, it quickly became a cultural touchstone for a distinct millennial aesthetic that combined rustic twee and Scandinavian minimalism.
