The House Tour
The teak house over the sea,
room by room.
Every piece is made in one house, on stilts in the shallows off Koh Lanta. This is a walk through it. Take your time; scroll slowly.
The approach
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The approach
You come in where the road runs out.
Off the long bridge onto Lanta Yai, past the rubber trees, down to where the road meets the water. The house stands on its own legs in the shallows, teak gone silver with weather, the sea moving underneath it the whole day long.
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The veranda
The first room has no walls.
Only the Andaman. This is where the day is measured: by the light coming up over the water in the morning, by the long-tail boats going out, by the heat and then the cool that follows the tide. A chair, and the sea, and not much else.
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The workroom
One table faces the window.
This is where Sunisa sits, most of the day and some of the night, a single hook moving in her hand. Every piece the house has ever made was begun and finished in this chair, by these hands, and no others.
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The wall of thread
The colours wait, wound and sorted.
Along one wall the thread is kept by colour: the greens of the inland, the blues and greys of the water, and the one warm rust the house allows itself, never more than a little. A piece begins as a choice made standing here.
See the Colour Room → -
The finishing table
Signed, and its card written by hand.
At the small table by the door a finished piece is signed, and its card written the day it is done, from the house to whoever it is going to. Then it is wrapped, and it leaves for your door carrying its number with it.
See what arrives → -
The turning tide
By evening the light goes copper.
The tide turns, the water takes the colour of the low sun, and the hook rests. The lamp comes on over the table. Tomorrow, with the next light off the Andaman, the whole quiet thing begins again.
Read the Tide Almanac →
That is the whole of it: one house, one pair of hands, and the sea that keeps the time. When you carry a piece, you carry a little of this room with it.