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For hotels, restaurants, galleries, spas, and cultural venues — a chashitsu as a destination in its own right. A space that slows guests down, sets you apart, and offers something no other interior can: a room that has been finetuned over centuries specifically to produce a particular quality of presence.

We work with architects, interior designers, and clients directly.

commercial
third space

For hotels, restaurants, galleries, spas, and cultural venues — a chashitsu as a destination in its own right. A space that slows guests down, sets you apart, and offers something no other interior can: a room that has been finetuned over centuries specifically to produce a particular quality of presence.

We work with architects, interior designers, and clients directly.

Home
residential conversions or extensions

An existing room, or a new extension, transformed into a chashitsu. The proportions, materials, and joinery are designed from scratch — the result is not a renovation but a new room with its own internal logic, sitting quietly within the fabric of a home.

Suitable for both period and contemporary properties.

Home
residential conversions or extensions

An existing room, or a new extension, transformed into a chashitsu. The proportions, materials, and joinery are designed from scratch — the result is not a renovation but a new room with its own internal logic, sitting quietly within the fabric of a home.

Suitable for both period and contemporary properties.

garden
standalone teahouse

A standalone structure, set apart from the main building — reached by a roji path through a considered landscape. The most complete expression of the form: its own threshold, its own silence, its own world. Built for private residences and estates where the garden can become part of the architecture itself.

Every project is designed in Japan and constructed to order.

garden
standalone teahouse

A standalone structure, set apart from the main building — reached by a roji path through a considered landscape. The most complete expression of the form: its own threshold, its own silence, its own world. Built for private residences and estates where the garden can become part of the architecture itself.

Every project is designed in Japan and constructed to order.

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We are a creative studio and consultancy based between London and Tokyo, with our feet in the Mediterranean Sea. Full website coming soon. We are working on some exicting projects. Watch this space.

In the meantime, you can always reach us here:

kontacto@esestudioese.com

We are a creative studio and consultancy based between London and Tokyo, with our feet in the Mediterranean Sea. Full website coming soon. We are working on some exicting projects. Watch this space.

In the meantime, you can always reach us here:

kontacto@esestudioese.com

STUDIO ESE

Kakyu-An（華久庵）

Standalone teahouse

A three-tatami chashitsu with a full mizuya, designed as a standalone structure set apart from the main residence.

The layout is considered for flexibility: removing the sliding partitions between the tea room and mizuya opens a continuous space of approximately seven tatami mats, large enough for gatherings beyond the tea ceremony itself. The shoji screens open fully to the garden, allowing the tea room and the exterior to be used as one.

Construction combines hand-selected timber, chosen and worked by hand in the traditional manner, with modern methods of ensuring a solid structural foundation.

The garden was developed in close collaboration with a landscape architect, reusing the original stones, moss, and plum trees from the site to create a space that carries the history of what was already there.

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Location: Minato WARD, Tokyo

Use: private

Total floor area: 20.77㎡

Kakyu-An（華久庵）

Standalone teahouse

A three-tatami chashitsu with a full mizuya, designed as a standalone structure set apart from the main residence.

The layout is considered for flexibility: removing the sliding partitions between the tea room and mizuya opens a continuous space of approximately seven tatami mats, large enough for gatherings beyond the tea ceremony itself. The shoji screens open fully to the garden, allowing the tea room and the exterior to be used as one.

Construction combines hand-selected timber, chosen and worked by hand in the traditional manner, with modern methods of ensuring a solid structural foundation.

The garden was developed in close collaboration with a landscape architect, reusing the original stones, moss, and plum trees from the site to create a space that carries the history of what was already there.

Location: Minato WARD, Tokyo

Use: private

Total floor area: 20.77㎡

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Next project