One of the inspirations for starting this project was a recent visit (at last!) to the Kiosk store in SoHo. I’ve perused the Kiosk website on and off for years, but somehow never got around to setting foot in the store. Kiosk is a great project (both the website and store) that evidences a love of design and of objects that resonates. The store (online and the shop in SoHo) stocks a carefully curated selection of beautiful and useful objects. A country of origin is chosen and a handful of objects are stocked. Some objects are stocked in perpetuity, but most only for that round. Shop as art project! On my recent visit the good old U.S. of A. was featured, and I snagged some delicious coffee milk from Rhode Island. But there were other things I wanted…

I am way into coffee. Good coffee, like my favorite objects, is both aesthetically pleasing (delicious!) and useful (awakeness!), and this coffee pot covers both bases as well.  It’s from Japan (it’s an ongoing selection), and it’s enamel (I love enamel). The color is just a bit to the orange side of red, deeply saturated, and perfectly pleasing, as are the graceful lines. 

This coffee pot costs $74 and so does this drawing!