KIOSK opens @ THIRD DRAWER DOWN – 19.10.2010

Get ready Australians! The most super-utilitarian New York design store Kiosk will be making its debut with a permanent storefront at Third Drawer Down, Melbourne from November 4th.

KIOSK is a travel story depicted through objects, a collection of interesting things from around the world, simple everyday anonymous things that generally go unnoticed. It is a study of material culture, a shop, an effort to preserve unique and indigenous objects, an installation, and something different from the every day. Alisa Grifo and husband Marco Romeny create their collection of curiosities on bi-yearly trips, with their most recent collection heralding from Japan. Their travels result in an enticing collection of “traditional goods that have been developed over generations or anonymous design found in general stores, DIY’s and Kiosks: products designed not around one personality but the result of local aesthetic and needs.” KIOSK is an ever-changing exhibition celebrating beauty in the found object.

Clamber though the foam padded doorway at Third Drawer Down and you will find a collection of esoteric and chaotic objects from across the globe made by anonymous designers, ranging from handmade reindeer horn mushrooming knives from Sweden, Portuguese weather roosters to neon green plastic Citra Sippers from Florida. In essence, things so different and special you never knew you couldn’t live without them.

KIOSK currently has a selection of objects at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Postalco in Tokyo, SCP in London and Project no.8 in New York.