Ori-An is distinct in many ways from what we know today as a Japanese tea room or teahouse. At Ori-An, we return to the origin of a tea room, “enclosure,” and examine the nature of space, starting with textiles and expanding to the contemporary tea ceremony culture.

The textiles used at Ori-An are from our new textile collection titled “Shoji Fabrics”, created in 2023 with HOSOO. At Ori-An, the unique gauzy transparency imbues the tea room with fluidity, gently connecting inside and outside without completely dividing the space.