Aug 30, 2011

Rennovations complete at Issoan Tea Room

To my readers, I apologize for the lapse in blogging this last month.  I will do better going forward.

For those of you who have emailed me asking if I was going to continue blogging and if I am okay, thank you and yes, I am okay just very busy this summer.

I thought that I would post some photos of the newly rennovated Issoan Tea Room:

This is the entry way into the tea room


Awning detail



Door handle detail


Tea room interior



Fusuma door detail



Shoji Window and detail


Overhead shoji lamp

I would like to express my gratitude to my design and construction manager, my husband.  As you can see, he does beautiful work. It was his ideas to take the old book of tea utensils apart and apply them to the fusuma.  He also wanted to incorporate the piece of wood given to us in the door and door handle.  And the shoji lamp with its curved supports are all his own design and execution.   Thank you so much.

Thank you also to my students who were patiently waiting for the tea room to be done.  We can now have classes here again.

4 comments:

  1. I -love- the dogu pages on fusuma. I'm always flipping through my notes, just outside the tearoom, just before starting practice and while the guests are examining the utensils. Decorative and practical .... :)

    John

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  2. John,
    Thank you for your comment. It just feels nice to be in the tea space again.
    Margie

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  3. Oh, it's so lovely! Congratulatoins.

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  4. Steph,
    I hope you can come for tea to see it in person soon.
    Margie

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