nana’s green tea HONG KONG SHOPPING CENTRE
Shanghai, China / 2013

“Materials in the tea room”

Nanaha Corporation is a company that introduces “a new form of Japan” to the world through “matcha” (powdered green tea). They arrange high grade matchas in modern style and provide them as a menu such as matcha latte. And their intention is to make the space into a “contemporary style tea room”, not a “Japanese style tea room”.

A tea room consists a lot of natural materials.

For example, wood is used not only for structures like a beam, a ceiling board in the tea room but also for details like a window and a door, a shelf.
Soil is mainly applied to a wall that it’s color and a feel, a scent, charm are perfect for the tea ceremony.
Stone is placed as a steppingstone and a paving stone at an alleyway. They are fun to look at and play a role of taking people safely to the tea room.

Once the use of materials is limited just to their own parts that were suitable for but now thanks to improvements of materials we are able to use materials in new ways and will be go on.

Therefore we represent three tea rooms, “tea room of wood” and “tea room of soil”, “tea room of stone”, making the wall, floor, ceiling, table, chair with one same material in nana’s green tea Shanghai Hongkong shopping mall.

Photos by Keisuke Miyamoto

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2013 – JCD Design Award 2013 – Best 100