Read it now! A new Casa Brutus is here!

Come check out our recent Casa Brutus issue—experience NY through the eye of Casa Brutus with features on creative interiors, architecture favorites, highlights on unique eateries (a coffee guide and where to get the best lobster sandwich???), shops and more.

We still have some great back issues as well.  We highly recommend the storage issue, which has some very clever solutions for a variety of geographies; traditions of the tea ceremony;  the 100 best product and architecture designs of 2009; best of residential architecture projects…

$15 

Some views of IKO IKO at Royal/T

Here are some shots of our mini IKO IKO shop at Royal/T in Culver City.  It will be up till 

May 9, so come visit if you’re in the neighborhood.  

Wood stools by WAKA WAKA, new polka dot shirts & pocket scarf jackets by Rowena Sartin, vintage books, rocks, handmade paper, original polka dot silk screened tenugui and prints on paper, ceramic barnacle planters and more curiosities…

3-week long IKO IKO mini store opening APRIL 23!

IKO IKO

meets

ROYAL/T

please join us to celebrate the start of our 3-week residency space at ROYAL/T

april 23, 6-9 pm

we will be introducing a mini IKO IKO shop with a specially curated selection of custom furniture, useful life objects, clothing, accessories, vintage books, ceramics, plantlife, rocks and some of our favorite IKO IKO curiosities.

ROYAL/T

8910 washington blvd

culver city, ca 90232

323.559.6300

www.royal-t.org

For those of you who missed the show...

In early March IKO IKO presented a puppet show by artist Yelena Zhelezov.  It was a three act performance incorporating puppetry, video projection and live sound (with music accompaniment by violinist Kristin Thorald Haraldsdottir). 

We are now happy to post some stills from the show and also share the piece on Yelena and her work that Brooke Hodge just wrote for NY Times Style Magazine online.  

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/seeing-things-yelena-zhelezovs-modern-puppets/?ref=t-magazine

Plants on the wall by EDEN BATKI

It’s Spring!

Revive the plant life in your home…

Hang a plant on your wall.

Artist Eden Batki has made a whole community of hand built ceramic wall planters, in different shapes, with a range of glazes and each planted with a unique succulent.  Hung singularly or as a grouping, they can be the perfect touch to an empty wall.
  

And to note, succulents (for all those without a green thumb,) are very resilient and sturdy, so they can survive a little neglect.  Mostly they just need the standard plant TLC— a little water and some sunlight. 

$55 for med/large size

$45 for small size

Call: 323.719.1079 

Email: info@ikoikospace.com 

Visit in person: 1298 w. sunset blvd, los angeles, ca 90026

IKO WAKA IKO WAKA!

WAKA WAKA stuff featured on the YOUhaveBEENhereSOMETIME blog—a blog full of VERY inspiring thoughts and images, for those of you who are unfamiliar.

Check it out!  http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/03/waka-waka.html#links

Pictured above are handmade knitting needles, sizes 35, 17, 11 (oak and hardwood, $55/each).

A little about WAKA WAKA…

WAKA WAKA is a project focusing on furniture and utilitarian objects designed and handmade by Shin Okuda.  

“I waka waka waka – I go many places,” which is from the song Coffin for Head of State by Nigerian musician FELA KUTI.

Here are some more things created especially for IKO IKO by WAKA WAKA. 

Cheese Slice Table, birch, contact for pricing (info@ikoikospace.com)

Triangle herb/flower planters, red balau wood, $88 + free Kitazawa see packet of your choice

Mini desk, birch, $500

 

Leaning bedside bookshelf, birch, $178 (standard width), $185 (wide width)

For more info:  323.719.1079 / info@ikoikospace.com

That Thing Called Street Closures and the L.A. Marathon

IKO IKO is on the L.A. Marathon map….

so we’ll be closed on Sunday, March 21.

Booooooo.

But, business hours to resume as normal thereafter:  

Tuesday - Saturday 1-7 pm

Sunday 1-5 pm

Gearing up to unveil some new pieces for the next installation, so stay tuned!
AND, come try on the botines by Beatrice Valenzuela.  They are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

BEATRICE VALENZUELA "Botines" have just ARRIVED!

Do you own a pair of handmade shoes? 

Here’s your chance.  

IKO IKO is proud to offer handmade moccasins by Beatrice Valenzuela in a limited run.  Crafted in Mexico using leather and recycled rubber soles, each pair is unique down to the stitched lacing detailing.

  

Whole sizing 6-10 (10 will also fit the men)

$160

Come by and try on a pair.

You won’t want to take them off.  

For further inquiries:  info@ikoikospace.com / 323.719.1079

PUPPETS, VIDEO & SOUND at IKO IKO saturday, march 6, 7:30 pm

IKO IKO
presents

YELENA 
ZHELEZOV

performing an evening of experiments in puppetry, video projection, and live sound that contemplate the notion of self-improvement .

Three situations are presented to the distinguished audience:
1. A multi-story apartment building changes into a mountain over a
surprisingly short period of time.
2. A bear attempts to study architecture, and is arrested For Fashion Faux Pas (4 paws).
3. A short course in learning to appreciate monumental sculpture.

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 7:30 pm
(please be timely as the show will begin at 7:30 sharp!)

Yelena Zhelezov is a Belarusian-Israeli artist  based in Los Angeles. Yelena’s work is highly interdisciplinary, and as such takes form of installation, objects, texts, film, and puppetry performance. Yelena’s materials are evidentiary of the world, often sourced in science, art history, and her yard.  She uses strategies of research, classification and the archive in her practice.  She is currently an MFA candidate at CalArts.

Sunday, Februray 28...

Due to scheduling conflicts from moving to a new apartment, IKO IKO will have to be closed on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28.  

You were busy anyways, right?

We’ll be back to normal as of TUESDAY, MARCH 2, so come by and say hey.  Sorry for any inconvenience.