Alejandro Sticotti's Teahouse
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Here's a view of the island, snapped from Sticotti's ferry on approach. -
Sticotti, on the left, was really excited to meet Kazuyo Sejima, director of this year's Venice Biennale and a Pulitzer Prize winner. -
This house was originally in ruins, and was reconstructed for this project. It houses a restaurant/teahouse on the ground floor, and guestrooms with traditional tatami mat floors on the second floor. -
Inside the restaurant/teahouse. Sticotti designed the wooden tables, stools, and lighting fixtures. -
The interior in action. -
There's an installation by the artist Leandro Erlich in the courtyard: a Zen garden where footsteps subtly appear and disappear in the stones, as if a phantom was walking across the square. -
I love this shot. -
Here's a closer view of the furniture, made of lapacho wood and woven rawhide. -
The exterior lights, hung beneath the eaves of the roof, are also made of lapacho wood. -
Looks like a hip crowd. The island will get its next wave of art-seekers next summer.
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