Japanese culture is never the work of a single hand.
It rises only when many crafts meet — ceramics, joinery, earthen walls, calligraphy, gardens.
WANOVA assigns the finest maker to each of these, one by one, and composes a Japanese space that exists nowhere else.
In the Home
A measure of Japanese time, woven into daily life.
CHASHITSU in Roppongi, Tokyo
A freestanding tea house in a private garden, where old stones, moss and an aged plum live on in new handwork.
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Penthouse Japanese Tatami Room in Tokyo
A penthouse hideaway built around an eight-mat tatami room, with a rooftop tea garden and a live-edge counter.
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Japanese Traditional House in Chiba
A forty-year-old house reborn as a place to stay, with hand-carved roofs and a tea room facing a dry garden.
Places of Hospitality
Stillness for the places where guests are received.
CHASHITSU in Gallery, Ippodo Gallery Ginza
A tea room beneath Ippodo Gallery Ginza; slide its fittings and the chashitsu becomes a gallery, or a stage.
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Japanese-style Izakaya in Tokyo
Solid timber, earthen walls and a fan-shaped slatted ceiling bring a tea house calm to a Tokyo izakaya.
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Kimono Salon in Tokyo
A kimono showroom with a full tea room built in — a tatami stage, with a solid-wood counter, for lessons and events.
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Bonsai Cafe and Tea Room in Aoyama, Tokyo
A bowl of matcha among bonsai, with a soundproofed one-mat tea room hidden behind.
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In the Workplace
A pause set into the middle of the working day.
CHASHITSU in an Office, Tokyo
A tea room and roji set into a high-rise office floor, where the calm of tea runs alongside the workday.
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Roppongi, TOKYO