San Francisco - April 29, 2005

Eye Opener

Wink SF Store

Your poor peepers. They spend ten hours a day staring at a computer screen. Here and there they may glimpse a fun shopping site, but for the most part it’s one boring e-mail after another.

Treat your baby blues (or browns or greens) to a trip to Wink SF, a new Noe Valley shop carrying bits and bobs from San Francisco to Japan.

Look one way and you’ll see a collection of retro telephones arranged next to psychedelic ceramic serving platters and glass display cases filled with jewelry from Susan Goodwin, Valerie Ferrario, and Claudia Kussano. Look the other and spot bags by “Angry Little Girls” comic strip creator Lela Lee, Bodhi dog toys, Fresh body products, Koziol housewares, and candy-colored glass chandeliers from Anokha.

It’s enough to keep weary eyes wide open.

Wink SF, 4107 24th Street, at Castro Street (415-401-8881).