KIOSK HELLO

“have noth­ing in your houses that you do not find to be use­ful or believe to be beau­ti­ful“
– (from The Beauty of Life, 1880)

This man knew what he was talking about

Look what we found in an antique store in Stock­holm! None other than our very own bird­house — a tried and true design that has housed birds in Swe­den for generations!

check out the fly­ing tur­tle and have a blast– like this fine lady at… KIOSK!

Found this fan­tas­tic chocloate cal­cu­la­tor on my good friend Betty Roytburd’s blog where it was won­der­fully com­ple­mented by other objects which made me equally nos­tal­gic. Remem­ber the jewel cal­cu­la­tors they used to have as well? makes me miss math… a little.

Ken Brown says:
“one of my favorite areas of dis­cov­ery and explo­ration is found in the bor­der­lands of the city, where art and nature meet and merge in a post indus­trial land­scape …“
I think his pho­tos are beau­ti­fully haunting

Not all images are there yet and we are still edit­ing some texts / mea­sur­ing the things etc. but the exhi­bi­tion is *largely* up and is a gor­geous addi­tion to our site. We are potaters, Andy’s things are the meat!

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! […]

The resource of resources — Where Inspi­ra­tion goes to get inspired. That’s Dullsville. These fab­u­lous folks had a shop on 13th Street on Man­hat­tan just off of 3rd Avenue which closed down when they got sick of the city, but they return for the hol­i­days! This year, from the 8th (we haven’t […]