It fits. Its home is Brands, as a shop that also shows a collection. One correction to start: KIOSK isn't new. It opened in SoHo in 2005, and Alisa Grifo and Marco ter Haar Romeny run it. What's new is how it works now. There's no shop door any more: it runs as an online shop, a 1,500-object archive and shows inside museums. The founders are now often in Provence, and The World of Interiors ran their Luberon farmhouse in its November 2026 issue. We had nothing on KIOSK anywhere. It's now on the Brand Desk as a card that isn't live, with two questions for you. Our overnight research has already read it and left three notes. It found nothing that changes the card.
What KIOSK is
What they do
They travel somewhere, look for ordinary objects (hardware-store things, kitchen tools, souvenirs, often from small makers), and show them like an exhibition. Every object gets its own short text. They sell the objects to pay for the next trip. In their words, it's "our studio, a store, an installation, a happening".
Alisa Grifo, from New York (she's worked as an interior designer and prop stylist), and Marco ter Haar Romeny, from Stockholm (he makes neon pieces). His father was the Dutch painter Edlef ter Haar Romeny, and KIOSK sells his lithographs.
Now: online at kioskkiosk.com, shipping from the US. Office address: Kioskkiosk LLC, 41 Union Square West, Room 925, New York. The physical archive is in storage in New York.
Before: a shop at 95 Spring Street, SoHo, plus an outpost at Ace Hotel New York, a KIOSK shop at SCP in London, and shows at MoMA PS1, the ICA London, the Hammer Museum, Cité Radieuse in Marseille and Gordon Robichaux in New York.
It pays its own way, with no outside money stated. The shop has always funded the shows ("sell our finds to fund the next show"). Alisa calls it a political project: "every dollar spent can be a political action."
KIOSK is a shop that works like a museum of everyday things. Each object comes with its maker and place and a story. The archive stays as a public record after the stock sells out. On Instagram (@kioskkioskny, 12.7K followers) each post is labelled In Stock or Archive, with the year and country.
A KIOSK book is being written. There's no date yet (Book).
No card. The World of Interiors is already there and is now tied to KIOSK.
Resources
Nothing
No card
People
No Alisa Grifo, no Marco ter Haar Romeny
Named on the card as founders. No People cards yet.
Trawl Log, inbox, Stories
Nothing
None
Archives register
Nothing
None (see the question below)
Searching "kiosk" brought up only other things that happen to use the word (a beach rental kiosk, a coffee kiosk). None of them is KIOSK.
Where it sits, and what it ties to
● tied today ○ named, not tied (most have no card of ours yet) ? your call Arrows go both ways.
From KIOSK you reach
Jasper Morrison and JB Blunk Estate, the makers it stocks
SCP, where it had a London shop
The World of Interiors, which featured it
Its founders, as names on the card
You reach KIOSK from
The Jasper Morrison and JB Blunk cards: "stocked by KIOSK"
The SCP card
The World of Interiors in Media Diet
The Brand Desk search, under "kiosk"
How it comes in
The desk
Brand Desk. KIOSK puts its name on a shop, not on products, so on the card it's a retailer (it sells other people's things) and a house (it shows a collection). It isn't a store, because nobody can walk in today. If it ever reopens a shop, that's when it gets a Place card in Guide Curator.
What's on the card now
Name KIOSK, legal name Kioskkiosk LLC
Website and Instagram
Based in New York, NY. Started 2005.
Founders: Alisa Grifo, Marco ter Haar Romeny
Sells online only, ships from the US
Six sources, each one opened
Four ties: Jasper Morrison, JB Blunk Estate, SCP, The World of Interiors
Not live. No verdict, no rating, no tagline, nothing in your voice.
Two questions on the card
Which subject does KIOSK sit under? Home / Culture / Both
Do the archive and the shows stay on this card, or does the archive get its own card in the Archives register? This card / Own card
Story angles (proposals)
The shop that became an archiveTwenty years of KIOSK, told through the 1,500 objects it kept. Why a shop with no door can matter more than one with a door, and what it means to keep a public record of things after they've sold.
A founder conversation with Alisa Grifo and Marco ter Haar Romeny"Every dollar spent can be a political action": buying from small makers on purpose, the Greece trip during the austerity years, and paying for your own shows.
An objects edit for HomeOrdinary things that last, like the Danish dish brush, Duralex glasses and the Willow weather stick. Each would link to KIOSK, the way our other edits link to shops.
The Luberon, through one houseEdlef ter Haar Romeny's farmhouse near Villars and the painters who settled in the Luberon. It could feed a Provence guide, and it ties to KIOSK's new Ah, Provence collection.
The case against "the everything store"Fast Company ran a piece on KIOSK as "the anti-Amazon". It's a fixed example of the opposite model: small, sourced in person, every object explained.
Look-only page. Nothing here can be changed from this page. Facts come from KIOSK's own site and Instagram and from The World of Interiors, all checked on 2 November 2026. The KIOSK card can be taken back in one step.