KIOSK HELLO

If you are following celebrity news (or just took a cab / watched tv / read any papers) , you might have come across the piece of Mr. Diddy roughing it up with a friend at the club that is hosted by our neighboring cafe Bari. Well, of course the first mainstream reporter got it all wrong stating that the club is the night-time extension of the store. Next we hear of it, it has been picked up by many other media outlets without fact-checking (actually, Fox5 did call, although they just wanted to hear if we saw anything or Britney).

So, no, we don’t have a club that you haven’t been invited to. And no, Mr. P didn’t fight over the last ‘girl smiling head’ (even if that would have been understandable).

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We are running behind on our tasks and a bit overwhelmed,sadly we had a crossed wire and each thought the other had posted a note here saying beautiful FINLAND is now in the shop and on the website. Please check it out! We hope you like it! It will be in the store until February approximately.

I really like Good Magazine.
www.goodmagazine.com

Great Sunday morning reading

a.

Hello!

KIOSK is looking for someone new in DF (Mexico City) to help us with our ordering! In a bit of a pinch if anyone knows of someone, many thanks! 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
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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 60507449
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For traditional German food, casual, cosy, good for lunch, also some groceries, they have a lovely radler (beer/lemonade mix) and also spatzel, baked goods too

Lebensmittel
Rochstrasse 2
030 27596130
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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

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
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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 store with one other person now whose things are nice but be sure to ask which side is Lenko’s.

Lenko
Kronobergsgatan 9
tel: 0708 33 56 65
NOTE! they are only open Thursday and Friday! 2 – 7pm
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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

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…