KIOSK HELLO

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 […]

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…

Now that you have places to eat how about some interesting shops: Svenskt Tenn: for swedish design from the 30’s & on Josef Frank, etc, in Ostermalm Strandvagen 5 tel: 670 1600 Asplund: for contemporary Swedish design, in Ostermalm Sibyllegatan. 31 tel:6625284 Nordiska Galleriet:for contemporary Swedish design, in Ostermalm Nybrogatan. 11 tel: 442 8360 Bo: […]

I have had so many types of licorice today that I really feel suuper-duuper-sikk. Been in Helsinki for two fabulous days now going to great stores and watching finns having a great late summer days. Did you know that finnish is completely uncomprehensible, but really beutiful as a language? Whenever they speak to me, I […]

Here is our route! Getting pretty excited leaving Tuesday morning! Seems like it is going to be great, we have a list of all sorts of things to do, see, people to meet. Finn people have been really supportive, thanks to everyone who has posted info here!

hey! ryan air, your just great, we really like starting our holiday in an airport in the middle of the swedish countryside for 8 hours waiting for a spare part to the plane,  I’m making up t-shirts: “we sat for 8 hours of delay at an airport in sweden thanks to ryan air and all […]

thanks Souris for being a great detective! this story is very funny! http://www.flickr.com/photos/hustlerofculture/618138286/

Word on the street is a well-known childrens store on Wooster between Prince and Spring pays $38,000 a month in rent. What in the world is the world coming to? That’s a decent years salary in most other places. New York is mad, Kiosk Omaha next? Damn…ground-floor retail in New York only allows the big […]

It got lost in the sauce of the ICFF (new york furniture fair) festivities but we have launched our first book in the KIOSK BOOKS series. Germany is number one. Inside is the German collection and our resources from the trip…where we ate, slept, places we went, suggest to go to in Germany, etc etc… […]

A quote from a good read “The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri, published in 1923: “I love the tools made for mechanics. I stop by the windows of hardware stores. If I could only find an excuse to buy many more of them than I have already bought on the mere pretence that I might […]