Beloved NYC design store seeks new home for its extensive archive
New Yorkers of a certain vintage will remember the store KIOSK, which lived downtown from 2005 to 2015. If you’d been there, how could you not?
If you managed to find the doorway and navigate one floor up the graffiti-covered, pre-war stairwell, you found yourself transported far from the increasingly unrecognizable, hypercommercial neighborhood that was swirling frantically into being outside. KIOSK was a retail experience unlike any other. Here’s how it worked: partners Alisa Grifo and Marco ter Haar Romeny would visit an interesting place – inIn the course of their travel, they would identify everyday objects that hadn’t been widely seen outside their local context before – scotch tape dispensers and slippers, aKIOSK sold extraordinary, everyday objects at affordable prices.“There’s so much anonymous design that doesn’t have a designer’s name imprinted on it,” ter Haar Romeny said.
In the years since KIOSK first opened, Van Dusen explained, plenty of retailers have discovered the importance of telling their products’ stories. Back then, she’d never seen anything like it. “Even six months later, I would go back to reorder something and it would be gone,” Grifo said. “So pretty early on, we realized we should keep one of each thing.”KIOSK's archive was shown as part of MoMA PS 1's "Greater New York" show in 2015.
Both agree that KIOSK feels inextricably tied to New York, and especially to their original location at Spring and Broadway, a few blocks from where Grifo had lived since the mid-90s.“It was the center of the center of the consumer central of the United States,” she said.
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