Post #160066 by Sabina on Wed, May 18, 2005 11:09 PM

There are parts of the Kahiki burned into my memory forever, there are other details that I'd have no idea where in all those layers the piece was originally. The overall layout is easy though- it had such coherence, each 'room' was a logical progression of the one before.

As for the outlet store, I have a few pictures from our last trip through Ohio- http://www.sevenpleasures.org/gallery/Kahiki-Outlet.

The store itself had a few Tikis, chairs, lamps, spears, sheilds, and other paraphanalia on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. When we went through, the artifacts were oddly sitting in a realitively sterile white room.

However the wonderful Wahine behind the counter explained their 'designer' (?) was going to come in and make the store less white and more Kahiki.

Another wonderful detail she shared- they were carrying a number of new Kahiki mugs, the headhunter/Moai, the skull mug, and a Kahiki Rum barrel. She mentioned that as the outlet store opened the most recent mug maker for the restaurant FOUND THEM and offered to make more mugs- can't verrify that, but the mugs each came with a Kahiki Stir stick- some of the older(?) dark green ones with the concave markings, and then other with the newer(?) lighter green stir paddles with the convex markings. There were no markings on the mugs to diffentiate these from those sold at the restaurant.

Finally, a picture of the entry fountain she took us into the glassed off room to see, she affectionately refered to him as "George", Kahiki folks may remember him from the entry hut with a flame burning atop his head. The 'designer' is alledgedly going to come in and make his habitat a bit less sterile- perhaps he'll get ferns at his base or something. In any case, he's in the foyer with other Tikis as part of the staircase with glass floats upon their heads.