A courtyard in Xizhou, since 2016
Our first room had no sign. Guests found it because someone told a friend. In many ways that is still how the whole thing works.
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Indigo, dyed the long way
A Bai artisan folds linen by hand and dips it eleven times. The colour does not come from us — it comes from patience and weather.
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Shop this →Beans from the Yunnan highlands
We buy direct from growers we can visit. Fewer hands on the way means more of the price stays in the village it came from.
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Shop this →Silver, shaped by mountains
The patterns are not decoration. Each line is a ridge someone in the family could once name from memory.
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Shop this →The barista who never sleeps
Twelve of them, actually. They answer at 2am, remember your last order, and still cannot pour you anything. Yet.
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