Patchwork: Toys in Taipei

Only having one day (really 26 hours) in Taipei was a big ol’ tease, luckily I’ll be spending another day there on the way back home. I did manage to check a few pretty nice shops I found walking around last night– one of them was a place called Patchwork– a small-modern designer toy shop. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many tiny Kubricks and Bearbricks in one place. They were all lined up along the walls with numbers and prices, pretty neat. The shop called it self ‘where apparel, toys and design collide’. Well, whatever back street I ended up on was an absolute blast at night. A few doors down from Patchwork there was a sneaker shop called Magnetic– it reminded me of the Alife Rivington Club in NYC, hardwood floors, shoes behind glass, the works. Unfortunately they were totally over-protective and wouldn’t let me take any pictures for a write up, so they just won’t get one.