Rowena Sartin circle top
$250
Our new space !
Come visit us - IKO IKO + Building Block.
1727 N. Spring St.
LA, CA 90012
Wed-Sat 12-7
Sun 12-5
Cut outs
Re-purposing/proposing. RS for Pants magazine.
Tmagazine blog!
Now that downtown L.A. has arrived, where to next? A pair of cult brands are making a case for Chinatown as the city’s new style frontier. After a recent joint pop-up downtown proved successful, Iko Iko—the concept store run by Kristin Dickson and Shin Okuda— and Building Block—Kimberly and Nancy Wu’s buzzy line of minimalist bags— are together establishing a permanent retail space along the neighborhood’s industrial northern edge. (The location, about halfway between downtown and the leafy creative-class enclave of Mount Washington, isn t quite the cultural desert it may seem: the vast Shareen vintage warehouse, a stylists haunt, is downstairs, and the annual FYFmusic festival has traditionally taken place at Los Angeles State Historic Park just down the road.)
The expansive third-floor loft, which opens tomorrow, will carry art and design objects, jewelry, printed matter and the Building Block collection as well as Dickson’s clothing line, Rowena Sartin, and Okuda’s handmade furniture project, Waka Waka. It will also host Building Block and Rowena Sartin’s design operations, in addition to rotating art shows, lectures and readings. The space has, as Dickson puts it, “nice energy” From 1973 to 1991, it was run as the Woman’s Building, a feminist art space and community center founded by the artist Judy Chicago, the art historian Arlene Raven and the graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. Now, it offers an ideal showcase for the sort of anything-goes collaborative spirit that characterizes the East Sides emerging art and design scene. Our goal centers around experience,” says Dickson. “The hope is that a visitor can engage with the space and the ideas that excite us.” Iko Iko and Building Block opening Saturday, April 26, 5-8 pm at 1727 N. Spring St., Los Angeles.
Come by or watch online for some new updates!
Akio Nishimoto
The Possible Overwear project RS
Rowena Sartin OVERWEAR progression smocks made for the Possible show at Berkeley Art Museum.
Made as canvas smock blanks, they’ve been worn by the artists working in the various open studios set up in the museum.
Check out the website which has ongoing updates on contributors, projects, performances, publications and more:
WAKA WAKA observation chair in situ
WAKA WAKA teak Observation Chair made for the Possible show at Berkeley Art Museum.
Indoor and outdoor views. Made for simultaneous contemplation.
See more projects on the exhibition’s website:
NEW LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT
We are on the move!
new spring works, new attitudes~ ~ ~ ~, new news:
IKO IKO + Building Block will be setting up a collaborative studio and show space together
@ 1727 n. spring street
los angeles, ca 90012
(in lower Chinatown next to the Cornfield Park)
We will be closing our 801 Mateo Street space March 30 and will re-open April 15 at our new permanent home.
Please stay tuned for updates on our grand re-opening event April 26.
ikoikospace.com / 323.719.1079
building—block.com / 213.537.2553