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This week, Mike Albo investigates Soho's painfully adorable French kitchen store Pylones. Money quote: "If you were to secretly dose the celebrated Japanese artist Takashi Murakami with LSD, spin him around in a swivel chair, bounce him on a trampoline, then repeatedly hit him over the head with a piñata, the interior of this store would be his hallucination." [NYT]
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