[6.2026]

For our Summer Pop-Up, we welcome Kamaro'an, a Taiwan-based studio that collaborates with Indigenous Pangcah craftspeople to carry forward traditional weaving practices through contemporary bags and objects. Named after the Pangcah word for "a place to live," the studio has worked since 2013 to sustain and evolve craft traditions rooted in the daily life and culture of Taiwan's east coast.

At the heart of Kamaro'an's work is a weaving tradition historically used throughout Pangcah life—from fishing and farming tools to baskets, brewing vessels, and even the construction of homes. Their signature woven forms employ a continuous one-thread technique derived from rattan bindings once wrapped around stone pestles used in rice brewing. Worked from beginning to end with a single strand, the weave creates structures that are remarkably durable, refined, and understated.

[5.2026]

For our Spring Pop-Up, we invited LA based scent brand, Bodha to host a Scent Club at Building Block Etc. BODHA’s Scent Club is a guided fragrance experience created by founder Emily L’Ami that invites guests to explore scent through a slower, more sensory lens. Designed as both an introduction to perfumery and a moment of pause, the experience included guided smelling exercises, exploration of fragrance families + raw aromatics, and shared discussion in an intimate setting.

In this Spring Scent Club, we explored the theme of THRESHOLDS: Five ingredients from what must end, through the becoming, and into full bloom.

[1.2026]

For our Winter Pop-Up we invited Akari Tachibana, an artist living in Japan whose garments bridge craftsmanship, tradition, and a surprising modernity.

Born in Osaka and informed by years of practice in San Francisco before returning to Japan, Akari's distinct silhouettes revere material and process, letting texture, shape, and proportion do the talking. Her forms draw inspiration from the timeless garments of her family's mountain village Tenkawa, reflecting both reverence for history and a personal, contemporary voice.

[11.2025]

Kyoto based artist Kazumi Takigawa is known for her utilitarian canvas bags and sculptural approach to the familiar form of the paper bag. Takigawa's work carries a quiet poetry of material and use. Each piece is hand-dyed with coffee, tea, iron and other natural pigments to evoke the tone of craft paper, then meticulously sewn and waxed by hand. The result is a useful object that is made to last and grow more beautiful with time and use.

We were fortunate enough to host our friend Kazumi for a month-long pop-up featuring 100 pieces of her hand dyed and waxed canvas bags in November 2025.

[10.2025]

Building Block Etcetera opened in Los Angeles as an extension of the Building Block visual language, reimagined as a physical space for studio-made works and functional objects across home, art, and design. “Et cetera”—from the Latin for “and the rest”—acts as both name and framework, pointing to an ongoing way of working that moves beyond discrete objects toward a broader, evolving sensibility.

Thank you to all the generous hands + friends who helped us along on our journey to opening our little dream shop: Ben + Heidi, LoJo, Walter, Mark, Cliff, Enrique, Jason, Case, Amber, B, and Aya.