Waki is predominantly a monochromatic project with textures and materials shaping its interior language. The general dining space is a depiction of the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest. Tables are embraced and framed with curved panels made of wooden louvers on a stone-veneered base, fulfilling a theme of verticality. Other tables are tucked within gridded "washi" paper VIP Rooms with an interior that portrays a quiet "tatami" experience, with black panels as negative spaces to highlight its horizontal members.

With a passion to design bold experiences, our design philosophy is to maintain a Gesamtkunstwerk, or a "total work of art,“ which combines every aspect of the design project into a collective whole. With the use of reoccurring motifs, textures, hues, and forms, the interior language translates to a singular, clear, and concise concept. The existing landscape, the exterior, the interior, and the furnishings are all integral facets that must incorporate and compliment one another. The human construction is an intervention of landscape; it is an extension or a continuation of what has already been there. Therefore, we believe it is essential to integrate the surrounding environment by extracting existing geometries, figurative movements, and circulation, and translating them into the designed interiors. We believe it is essential to carve an experience that can be accommodated by the existing landscape, which not only includes form but as well as its culture. It is this consistency that creates the boldness of the concept and thus the boldness of the human experience.