Kaze-an

Design the website for **Kaze-an** ("hermitage of the wind"), a fictional tea house and ceramics studio in the hills north of Kyoto, run by the same family for four hundred years. Visitors come for the tea ceremony; collectors come for the tea bowls of the current master, Sōan, the fourteenth of his line. The page must communicate: - The spirit of the place — a garden path, a small room, the sound of water; tea as attention rather than refreshment. - The ceremony: what a guest experiences over ninety minutes, and the four seasonal gatherings of the year (each season should feel distinct). - The master's work: his tea bowls — each one imperfect by intention, no two alike — and the family's four centuries of continuity. - How to visit: ceremonies are small and by reservation; the page should make requesting a seat feel like the beginning of the ritual itself. Emotional register: **calm, spare, warm, unhurried — wabi-sabi**. The page should feel like the room it describes: mostly empty, precisely placed, quiet enough that small details carry. Restraint is the whole discipline here — what is left out matters more than what is put in. Any motion should be barely-there: the movement of steam, of paper, of light. This challenge stresses **minimalism and typographic poise**: whether a model can hold a visitor's attention with almost nothing on the screen. All visuals must be generated in code — no external images. All design decisions — palette, typography, layout, copy, imagery, motion — are yours. There is no single right answer; make something with a point of view.