The Asylum
At the coincidence of two friends both telling me that it was worth checking out, I got my girlfriend to go along with me to find The Asylum after a failed attempt to have Tian Tian chicken rice from Maxwell market for dinner. The Asylum is this store at 22 Ann Siang Hill in Singapore that sells some pretty cool stuff, from Mihara shoes to Fred Perry polos, design books, magazines and more. It also doubles as a design studio. The decor is decidedly ultra trendy and kooky at the same time, with some humourous stuff all over the place, like little red birds on the white chandelier or a cartoon on the wall declaring the colors of the panties he is privy to from his position.
The name seems to be rather fitting as their website will demonstrate. The pic above is stolen from the Flickr page of one of the artists that decorated the wall at the shop.
*Update. The wall has been repainted! So it no longer looks like this and I expect it to change as well!
