Iko Iko also features work from Dickson’s and Okuda’s own lines. Under the label Rowena Sartin cheap coach handbags, Dickson designs a line of simple, structural clothing that recalls the very early work of Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto. Custom wood furniture and useful objects — chairs, tables, boxes for organizing books and records, and a graceful ladder, among others — are designed and handmade by Okuda under the moniker Waka Waka, which comes from a song by Fela Kuti. (“I waka waka waka — I go many places.”) And, in case you were wondering, the name Iko Iko (pronounced with either a long or a short I) comes from a 1960s song by the Dixie Cups, but also means “Let’s go” in Japanese.
On regular trips to visit Okuda’s family cheap coach handbags, they source Japanese ceramics, traditional textiles and small everyday objects that range from a perfect whisk broom to a pink rabbit-shaped sponge. But supporting L.A. talent is also a priority for the partners. Handmade leather bags by Juliana Hung, a recent Art Center College of Design graduate, are artfully displayed near a group of antique terra-cotta horses from Indonesia. The sculptor Julia Haft-Candell’s hand-built porcelain pieces sit next to ceramic Ikebana baskets from Japan. Dickson, who curates a new retail display every month or so, often works with her roster of artists to create custom pieces for the shop. She asked Matt Merkell-Hess to add big polka dots to his rugged ceramics, which are based on the shapes of old American pottery pieces like whisky jugs.
Earlier this month, Iko Iko, a concept shop and gallery cheap coach handbags, pulled up stakes and moved to 931 North Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood. Its new space is lighter and airier than its former Echo Park location, and it gives Iko Iko’s proprietors, Kristin Dickson and Shin Okuda, more room to showcase the charming utilitarian goods that have garnered the shop something of a cult following in Los Angeles. Okuda is from Tsuruga, a seaport city in western Japan, and he and Dickson share a deep affection for the beauty and simplicity of Japanese craft and design.
From left: Matt Merkel-Hess stoneware bowls on a Waka Waka redwood table and bench; ceramic ikebana containers from Japan and a porcelain tea set by Julia Haft-Candell; paintings by Meghan Petras, Waka Waka nesting tables and stools, ceramic sculpture grouping by Zachary Leener and vintage terra-cotta horse figures from Indonesia.
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