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one more for berlin

September 17, 2007 by Alisa

hi, one more for Berlin to check out
with so many gal­leries and not much time it is hard to know where to go, our favorite was Neuger­riem­schnei­der, such a beau­ti­ful space too…
Neuger­riem­schnei­der
Lin­ien­strasse 155
D– 10115 Berlin
030‑2887 7277
–mitte–

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to eat in berlin

by Alisa

Friend in berlin now, needs a place to eat, I don’t eat meat so my resources are lim­ited in Berlin although great stuff, our friend Kirsty who lives in Berlin now directed us to these places so I have to give her credit…
Knödel, the Ger­man dumpling, DELICIOUS, nice inte­rior too, good neigh­bor­hood
Leo Bet­tini
Mulack­strasse 33
030 […]

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Kyoto temples

September 9, 2007 by Alisa

Out of the many tem­ples in Kyoto these were my favorites, we vis­ited them in the Fall, (caught the peak Fall leaf period by sheer luck) keep in mind the Spring can be a totally dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence, if any­one has other tem­ples they like please put them in the com­ments here. We’d really love to […]

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two more suggestions in stockholm

by Alisa

two more for stock­holm, vin­tage shops…
if you like kitchen items, glass, ceramic from Swe­den rang­ing from the mid-1800’s till the 1970’s then please go to:
Ala Carte Antik
Rid­dar­gatan 11 A
tel: 661 9988
–oster­malm–
then, one of my favorite stores in the world, she has an eye like NO OTHER, really bril­lant stuff from 1900 — 1970. She is shar­ing the […]

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kyoto hotel

September 7, 2007 by Alisa

Now we have friends going to Japan, it is really a travel time of year!
This is where we stayed in Kyoto and we really loved it, not so much for the room, although it was in an orig­i­nal wooden house, a rare thing, not so much for the shared bath­room, although it was pre­fectly clean, […]

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Finland is soon here

September 5, 2007 by Alisa

Here is a pre­view of Fin­land taken while vis­it­ing Alvar Aalto’s “Exper­i­men­tal Sum­mer House” in Jyväskylä, Fin­land. Really, some of these objects in his col­lec­tion are in the KIOSK collection…it’s excit­ing. More pic­tures of the house soon to come…

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More Stockholm things

by Alisa

hi
some more things from Stock­holm I am remem­ber­ing:
A lovely, lit­tle, old flower shop where the man is as uplift­ing as the flow­ers. Open on Sun­days too from 10 — 15.00! Good to know if you are going to visit fam­ily. We got one amaz­ing peach glad­i­o­lus there and peo­ple were mes­mer­ized by it when I […]

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New York things to do part 1 of a never ending list

September 1, 2007 by Alisa

I really don’t shop since I am in KIOSK all the time dur­ing store hours and who wants to shop when you are sur­rounded by merch all day anyway…but I put down a few of my hot spots I go to for inspi­ra­tion, neces­si­ties, or a gift when Marco com­plains we can not give presents […]

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