KIOSK

Great little Shop selling miscellaneous objects collected from around the world….

“Kiosk: An independent stand from which merchandise is sold, often placed in the common area of a shopping center.

Kiosk is a store located in SoHo, New York. We offer a curated range of products from all over the world. Everything is sourced during our travels; we build the collection while we are traveling and then feature it in the shop for 4 – 6 months. Our currently featured country is HONG KONG, in addition we also have an “Ongoing” collection of objects from previous countries.

We opened the store to offer an antidote to over-design. We consider the objects we stock to be humble, straightforward and beautiful for their simplicity and directness. Often they are traditional goods that have developed over generations or anonymous design found in general stores, DIYs and kiosks, products created by not one personality but things that are the result of local aesthetics and needs. Their beauty is sometimes hard to see in today’s market; our motivation to start Kiosk was to shed some light on these anonymous objects.

The store is not static. We are not be able to predict our stock as it is decided by each trip. Sometimes certain goods are only available on a very limited basis. We intend to have products that are not currently for sale in the United States. There is always a mix of things; the goods assembled together in Kiosk become a rough portrait of each trip.

Hope to see you at the shop!”

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3 Comments

  1. Posted June 6, 2008 at 3:09 am | Permalink

    amazing!!!!

  2. Kai
    Posted June 6, 2008 at 3:22 am | Permalink

    how do you find this stuff…?

    love the entry on the egg pricker (http://kioskkiosk.com/c/89/p/533/Egg_Pricker) How can you boil an egg without one? You just can’t! – So true

  3. Posted June 9, 2008 at 3:10 am | Permalink

    Buying myself a new can opener as we speak!

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