Thank you, 2351 Lincoln // BK Love Letter, March 2025
On March 1st, we moved out of our Altadena location after six years of living and breathing our BK life there. Last week, as our team and I packed our... Read More
BK Love Letter by Wakako
Hello, BK Eagle Rock!
On Sunday (3/16), we celebrated our very first opening hours at BK Eagle Rock. And what a fantastic day it was! Our entire team, including Kei from Kyoto and Eunice... Read More
Artist/Designer discussion with Jen Herzig Smith and Emil Konishi
What a privilege it was to host our first Artist Showcase event with Jen Herzig Smith at Baum-kuchen last Sunday. I am so grateful for all the love Emil put... Read More
to be the "air" in between // BK Love Letter, February 2025
Greetings from Los Angeles. It's good to connect with you here again after taking an unexpected break from sending my monthly love letter in January. When I went back to... Read More
Upcoming Artist Showcase // Jen Herzig Smith // February 9th @ BK
I have known Jen Herzig Smith for more than a decade. Earlier years of our time together were often through the shared lens of parenting and homeschooling since we both... Read More
Thank you, our friends in Denver!
Earlier this month (which feels like ages ago with everything that happened since then…), Frido and I had an opportunity to host an analogue gathering with our BK friends at Avanti... Read More
Sharing a Small Window of Life Story and Inner World // Wakako
On Saturday, I hosted the very first BK analogue meet-up at our studio in Altadena. Creating an opportunity for a community to gather in person has been on my wish... Read More
As we walk our path... // BK Love Letter, December 2024
Greetings from California. I hope you are stepping into the last month of 2024 gently. During Thanksgiving week, our kids had a week off from school. Everyone in the family... Read More
Storm around and within us // BK Love Letter, November 2024
Greetings! This past month, I had a lot of time to reflect on the idea of “storm” as Hurricane Helene intersected with our path in Western North Carolina on September 27th.... Read More