Grand Salvo

Love the faint and fragile music of Grand Salvo in Soil Creatures. So emotional, almost spiritual and reminds of the beauty of sadness, life and death. And how perfect is the CD booklet. Too good.

www.preservation.com.au/releases/grand-salvo/

Let go

This is a path of letting go

So there will be room to live

If we hold on to opinions,

our minds will become dull and useless

Let go of opinions.

If we hold on to possessions,

we will always be at risk.

Let go of possessions.

If we hold on to ego,

we will continue to suffer.

Let go of ego.

Working without thought of praise or blame

is the way of true contentment.

- Lao Tzu

IKO IKO

A space so beautiful and inspiring. Understated, raw and organic, it seems perfectly planned but looks totally unpretentious. The natural light, bare walls and concrete floors with minimal, randomly spaced-out objects are the stuff of dream. Also, owners Kristin Dickson and Shin Okuda look so friendly and nice.


Bring me there.


www.ikoikospace.com

IKO IKO IS A CONCEPT SHOP FOCUSING ON HIGH CRAFT AND DESIGN PIECES. FAVORING TRADITIONAL HANDMADE PRACTICES, WE REPRESENT CUSTOM FURNITURE BY WAKA WAKA, LIMITED RUN CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES BY ROWENA SARTIN, JEWELRY, ARTWORK, INTERIOR ACCENTS AND JAPANESE UTILITARIAN OBJECTS AND CURIOSITIES.   UNDERLINING TEXTURE, PROCESS, AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN, WE AIM TO SHARE AN EXPERIENCE WITHIN OUR SPACE THROUGH PIECES THAT ARE BOTH UNEXPECTED AND INSPIRING AND CREATED AS UNIQUELY CURATED WORKS.


931 N. FAIRFAX AVE. / LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 // 323.719.1079 /// 
INFO@IKOIKOSPACE.COM /// HOURS : TUES-SAT 12-7 // SUN 12-5

Detektivbyran

Charmed by the beauty of Detektivbyran, a Swedish electronica and folk music trio from Gothenburg. 

Their whimsical, carnivalesque music brings the soul to a faraway land of dreams and imagination. 

Love the instruments they use: accordion, glockenspiel, music box, sound box and small bells.

Take a book, some green tea and last the whole day.

A place

"A place of one's own - where one can be alone - is essential. And that place, however small and humble or large and spacious, should be made one's very own in the fullest sense of the phrase. That means not only should it be sacred to one's self, but it should be used as an expression of one's personality.. It is no small pleasure, bit by bit, to make the room, by well-thought-out additions, more efficient, more comfortable, more native to one's self, until it exactly expresses what one is and what one wants to do there, and reaches the acme of usefulness, beauty and pleasure for its occupant. For just as the first must have its water, and the bird must have its air, so you and i must have the immediate environment native to us for comfort, pleasure, and harmonious self-development." 


- C.G.L. Du Cann, Teach yourself to Live, 1955