Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #73 The Riviera Room – Burien WA

When I first stepped inside The Riviera Room, the first thing I noticed was a collection of Otto Von Stroheim’s Tiki News editions displayed on the wall. I knew right there that the owner of the The Riviera Room knows his tiki. That man is Paul Brown and his home tiki bar feels like a tiki bar that would have been built back in the late 1960’s. It’s cozy, comfy and cool. Oh, did I happen to mention that there is an actual Shag painting on the wall?

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Sven Kirsten: The Man Who Wrote The Book Of Tiki

Sven Kirsten signing books at Tiki Kon 2017

You don’t realize how small the Tiki subculture is until you start looking at how little there is written about the subject. I can count the number of books written about Tiki culture on one hand and most of these books were written by Sven Kirsten.

Sven wrote The Book Of Tiki and it’s the blueprint on what Tiki was, what Tiki is, and what Tiki should be. Sven’s The Book Of Tiki, Tiki Modern, and Tiki Pop are all standard reading if you want to learn about Tiki. Continue reading to learn about the man himself…

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