Koto Tea Space
Koto Tea Space Cafe by Takanao Todo is a winner of the 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design.
Koto Tea Space is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Koto Tea Space, a tranquil Japanese teahouse nestled in downtown Bangkok, brings the enchanting concept of "Shichu no Sankyo" to life a country retreat within the urban pulse. Concealed by wave-patterned ceramic tiles, the entrance shields from the city's chaos, warding off sunlight and rain. Inside, the Tea Salon boasts 6 seats and 2 tatami areas, offering a peaceful horizontal design reminiscent of Shugaku-in's signature shelf. With a focus on harmony, the existing structure, earthy walls, and natural lacquer-finished furniture unite to create an inviting coziness.
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Koto Tea Space by Takanao Todo
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Cafe
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Interior Space and Exhibition Design Award Winner in 2024.
Bronze Winner
Koto Tea Space Cafe
Koto Tea Space is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Koto Tea Space is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Koto Tea Space splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Takanao Todo
Takanao Todo is an architectural designer, ceramicist, lecturer and educator for supporting dyslexia in Japanese. His major contribution in design is realization of seamless integration from object, furniture, space and to the level of operation, while applying conceptual approach enabling to share the latent narrative to wider audiences. He is challenging how Japanese tea culture can evolve outside of Japan through design also. As Takanao is the first official dyslexic Japanese, his success encourages many dyslexia in Japan, as dyslexic social awareness in Japan is not well acknowledged.
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Takanao Todo
A design practice working from architectural works, and ceramic art, to graphic design based in Bangkok. The studio focuses on the integration of traditional crafts, digital technology, and the application of design concepts.
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