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Lessons from Kyoto
On a recent collaboration with a tea master, and what a 16th-century teahouse taught us about modern interior design.
Iris HalversonMay 22, 2024
Travel
May 22, 2024
8 min read
The teahouse we were invited to visit in Kyoto was sixteen tatami mats and roughly four hundred years old. It had been moved three times. Its pillars, by design, had been cut from different trees — and the resulting irregularity was meant to evoke, the master explained, the way a forest floor catches light unevenly.
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