<span style="font-style: italic;">a late summer afternoon </span><br /><br />at<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> IKO IKO</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">931 North Fairfax Avenue, LA</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(new space)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6065884595_49a6fe5a12_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6065884595_49a6fe5a12_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 809px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br />As the sun was slipping into the sea,<br /><br />the circles began to appear everywhere, and every how, and every when.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Congrats to Kristin and Shin on the new space for IKO IKO!</span></span> Yesterday, afternoon drifted into dusk, at their new space on Fairfax, while I was taking in their new location + new works. Their new space continues their seamless voyage into artist + high craft driven objects.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://ikoikospace.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IKO IKO</span></span></a> is the creative home of Kristin Dickson and Shin Okuda's ongoing projects, <a href="http://www.rowenasartin.com/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rowena Sartin</span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.rowenasartin.com/"> </a>(</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="st">common structures of clothing design.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">)</span> + <a href="http://lookatwakawaka.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Waka Waka</span></span></a> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(furniture + sculptural investigations)</span>. In addition, the minimally + gorgeously designed space is curated with objects, books, textiles, ceramics from their travels abroad + local meetings. Shin introduced me to his new Waka Waka ladder works<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> (!!!)</span> and told me about some exciting collaborations he is working on....<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6184/6065898539_ebf7ea0a84_z.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6184/6065898539_ebf7ea0a84_z.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 645px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Stay tuned...</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>YHBHS will be posting an INTERVIEW w/ Kristin Dickson this coming month... </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />In the meantime, check out an interview</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">YHBHS</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">did with </span><a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/09/yhbhs-interview-waka-waka-with-shin.html" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Shin Okuda of WAKA WAKA </a><span style="font-style: italic;">last year... </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Also, read about</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/seeing-things-iko-iko-goes-west/?ref=design">Iko Iko in the T Magazine blog here...</a>, and read <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/12/y-h-b-h-s-card-catalog-selection-30-iko.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">IKO IKO's card catalog entry here..<br /><br /><br /><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------<br /><br />----------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

a late summer afternoon at IKO IKO 931 North Fairfax Avenue, LA (new space) As the sun was slipping into the sea, the circles began to ap...

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