Indigo Teahouse

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Indigo Teahouse keeps the afternoon quiet. Bone-white porcelain tiles carry a bold indigo motif in a fine grout grid, and a second panel is crossed by a broad solid indigo border band. Rounded pale grey river stones come bare or with deep moss green filling the gaps. Plain pale lime plaster, a polished near-black lacquer panel with a cold sheen, warm terracotta brick and bone-cream rice plaster flecked with straw carry the structure. Pale straw tatami matting is laid in broad woven panels with dark cloth edging, paired with near-black lacquered boards, an upright lacquered post bound with pale straw cord that crosses at the centre, and its cut top showing pale rings inside a black lacquer rim. A shelf of indigo and white porcelain teapots, cups and stacked tea caddies, a pale paper screen divided by a broad timber lattice, a dark slate slab and moss garden turf set with pale grey pebbles finish the set. Nothing here is transparent: the paper screen is painted rather than see-through, and no block glows or behaves differently.