Mozart in the Teahouse

 The tea house was the setting for rehearsals of Mozart flute quartet and clarinet quintet. The acoustics are superb.

 

Finally, a bamboo forest

The bamboo planted in fall 2009 is finally starting to having significant growth (35 shoots so far this year). This is an essential part of the tea house design.  We'll show how this changes in the coming weeks.

Tea house table progress

Sidney sent this photo of the progress on the tea house table. The material is walnut with thin layers of a lighter wood (birch?). We hope to have it in the tea house by late winter/early spring.

Fall colors

Fall colors around the tea house bring out a different look.

Building a table for the tea house

We've been working with a local wood artist (Sidney) to design and build a table befitting of the tea house.  She has come up with an initial design (2nd picture). Today we just suggested a few changes, and hope to have a new walnut table soon.

 Sidney in her workshop.

 The initial design for the top.

The workshop.

Harvest Moon in the Tea house

September 22nd was the harvest moon festival in China. The clouds cleared off just enough last night to see the moon (and Jupiter).

The fully lit tea  house.

 

The moon peaking through the trees.

Fashion shoot

The tea house was the setting for a magazine fashion shoot.  A crew of about 15 people, including photographers, makeup and hair artists and wardrobe stylists.  The photos give a glimpse of the process, which lasted from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.  The photos will appear in a spread in Vive magazine.