The Contemporary Tea House

The tea house is one of Japan’s most original and significant architectural forms—a small, simple space for the tea ceremony that traditionally requires a hearth, straw-mat flooring and a low entrance. Modern Japanese architects have found the challenge of redefining this highly formalized and constrained idiom almost impossible to resist. The Contemporary Tea House features twenty works that reveal the way world-renowned Japanese architects approach …

Ebe Salad Serving Set

Designed by Romain Vauchez, the Ebe salad bowl comes with a lid that has built-in slots for the tongs and also doubles as a stand for serving, making transport effortless and keeping salads and other foods fresher longer. The design of the stainless steel bowl and plastic lid is perfect for potlucks, picnics or your next space age-themed party. It's not cheap at $115, but …

The Borderline: Enlightenment x Towa Tei

An exhibition of new lithographs by Enlightenment's Hiro Sugiyama opens tomorrow, 26 May 2007, at the highly–acclaimed Hiromi Yoshii gallery in Kiyosumi, Tokyo. Sugiyama's lithographs are a wonderfully fresh reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese Hanga prints, with a subject matter far from the traditional. His lithographs include abstract colorful pieces as well as human skulls and imagined modern-day tribe portraits (pictured). Sugiyama works mainly as …