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Japan 2 launched

Alisa — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:32:48 +0000

Hi there

Ok, spank me, I have been really bad about making blog posts, but I will, starting now, try to be better

Japan 2 launched on October 21st and we well, of course we love it…hope you do too. Let us know your thoughts! Good and bad, why not! Just make it constructive pleazzze.…

Kiosk Tokyo Road Show

Alisa — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:27:36 +0000

We are having an opening in Tokyo tomorrow and we hope you will join us if you are here! The nice people at Postalco have invited us and we will visit them until June 25th. Not bad! Although we have to go back to New York before then, boo hoo.

Location:
2–2-18 4fl
Kyobashi Chuoh
Tokyo

Party Opening Time: from 6 –8

Normal Shop Hours: Wed, Thurs, Fri 12– 7 & Sat 12–6

Mini #8: Reference Library

Alisa — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:11:38 +0000

It’s all about having a store. For the last mini-exhibition of 2008 Andy Beach of REFERENCE LIBRARY will bring his blog into the 3rd dimension with a 10-day-long shop at KIOSK that appropriately opens on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the most notorious retailing day of the year. Let the holiday shoppers rejoice! We know we are! In addition to some fifty vintage and non-vintage odds and ends he has selected to sell here, he has commissioned WORKERS to produce an APRON (update: it sold out very quickly, sorry) of selvedge denim, made in Japan and offered in a limited edition of 5. Please come to the opening this Friday November 28th from 7 — 10pm at KIOSK, 95 Spring Street on the 2nd floor where there will be pretzels and beer from Philly. It will be fun to swap Thanksgiving stories and nosh together.

8 things 4 2008 (& one..)

Marco — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:46:23 +0000

8 things 4 2008 + 1 more 4 good luck

Eight things to help you through the coming year, a little bit of assistance.
Dish Brush + Pine Tea + Rawhide Mallet + Cheese Grater + Sesame Grinder + Knife Sharpener + Metal Stencils + New York Guidebook + Money Notebook
DENMARK + BELGIUM + USA + ITALY + JAPAN + FRANCE + FRANCE + JAPAN + PORTUGAL

Happy 2008!

These are all things we found during 2007 and things we feel are just the tops.
They will be in the shop and online until March and then we launch HONG KONG

SALE HAPPENING NOW TOO!

Kyoto temples

Alisa — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:02:54 +0000

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 hear from you. I do not put the addresses here are they are all well marked on any Kyoto map, damn reading my list now, help! I want to go!

ryoanji:
mother of zen gardens, how can you miss it? I never GOT zen gardens until I walked in here, artistically life changing experience
katsura:
imperial temple slightly outside of town, really lovely, you must get ticket from the imperial palace in the center of town in order to go there, slightly removed from hustle of other temples
ginkakuji:
lovely sand pile representing mt fuji, this is one place to go to in the Fall, the leaves were incredible…
kinkakuji:
this is where the golden temple is, much to be appreciated but we liked ginkakuji more if you can only go to one
zuiho-in & koto-in:
both are subtemples of the Daitokuji Temple
Zuiho-in has a outstanding rock and moss garden, small, lovely and intimate and Koto-in has an impressively silent entrance and an amazing viewing garden
kiyomizu:
interesting, massive construction up the hill, very different from the rest on this list, more for the construction than the nature

kyoto hotel

Alisa — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:37:03 +0000

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, not so much for the owner, he was a true eccentric, but for the location, stait in the center of the geisha quarters of Kyoto, it was lovely…if you stay in the cold months be sure to bring warm things to sleep in as the wooden houses are drafty! And ask for a room out front so you can hear the click of the geta (wood shoes) and signing voices of the maiko when you fall asleep. This is not a fancy place but full of atmosphere.

SAWAI
Higashiyama-ku,
Miyakawa-suji 4 choume 320
KYOTO
TEL : 075.561.2179