Collaborations

Ie is a house, not a venue.

We look for work that takes time, uses the house as it is, and leaves something behind.

Formats

A long upstairs tatami room, doors open through to the next.

Tea + Vinyl

Listening sessions in a tatami room: a record, a tea chosen for it, a small number of people.

Rooms: tatami rooms [TO CONFIRM]
Typical length: [TO CONFIRM]

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Incense & sound

The room below ground, for scent, sound and stillness.

Rooms: below ground
Typical length: [TO CONFIRM]

Glass vessels on a tray, set on tatami.

Residencies

Makers and artists live and work with the house. Their work may enter the Atelier.

Rooms: [TO CONFIRM]
Typical length: [TO CONFIRM]

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Furniture

A maker furnishes a room for a season. It is used, not staged.

Rooms: [TO CONFIRM]
Typical length: one season

Fern and moss growing over stone.

Body care

Formulations developed from the house's materials and rituals.

Rooms: [TO CONFIRM]
Typical length: [TO CONFIRM]

A dark hallway opening onto the bright street through glass doors.

Fashion

Capsules, lookbooks and garments made or shown in the house, respecting its darkness and its pace.

Rooms: [TO CONFIRM]
Typical length: [TO CONFIRM]

The garden edge beside the rear annex: stones, moss, low planting.

Retreats

Practitioners using the garden, the upstairs rooms and the room below ground.

Rooms: garden, upstairs, below ground
Typical length: [TO CONFIRM]

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Gatherings & events

For organisers who want a small room rather than a large one.

Rooms: [TO CONFIRM]
Typical length: [TO CONFIRM]

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Sake learning

Upstairs, later.

Rooms: upstairs
Timing: [TO CONFIRM]

The rooms available

Room sizes in jō, as on the plan. Proposed, and subject to change as the restoration goes on.

SpaceFloorSizeNatural lightCapacityGood for
Front space, main house1F16 jō [m² TO CONFIRM]Street side, east [TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM]Gatherings, furniture, fashion
Tatami rooms, main house1F8 jō and 6 jō [m² TO CONFIRM]Garden-facing [TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM]Tea + Vinyl, gatherings
The garden1FBetween the two buildingsOpen sky[TO CONFIRM]Retreats
Tatami rooms, rear annex1F6 jō and 6 jō [m² TO CONFIRM]Garden-facing [TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM]Residencies, Tea + Vinyl
Rear space, rear annex1F17 jō [m² TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM]Residencies, making
Upstairs rooms, main house2F8, 6, 6, 6, 5, 4.5 and 3 jō, with a veranda [m² TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM]Tea sessions, sake learning, retreats
Upstairs rooms, rear annex2F8, 8 and 12 jō [m² TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM][TO CONFIRM]Residencies, retreats
The room below groundB1[TO CONFIRM]Low[TO CONFIRM]Incense & sound

Sizes are in Kyoto-ma tatami. [m² per room TO CONFIRM against the architect's survey]

How we work together

What Ie offers

The rooms. The rhythm of the house. The Atelier. The people who come to the house. Documentation of the work.

What Ie asks

Time, and specificity. Respect for the building: no nails, no fixings to old timber or earthen walls, limits on noise and light. [house rules TO CONFIRM] And work that would only make sense here.

First season: in development. There are no past projects to show yet.

Write to the house

For architects, makers, artists, brands, suppliers, press and people who would like to work here.

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