The tatami rooms, some in plywood lean-tos, are lined with insouciantly crocheted place mats and cushions.
6. Three-foot tatami squares, from Japan, are covered in woven rush, lined with a layer of foam and backed with polyester fabric.
The rooms opened to the outside with sliding doors latticed with wooden slats and paper screens; the floors were covered with tatami mats.
We found a ryokan to stay at, with a room done up with tatami mats and shoji panels, and walls the color and texture of sand.
There are plugs for laptops in the cafe, so students can hook up, and a meditation room with tatami mats, so they can chill out.
Poured concrete floors are raked to look like a Japanese Zen garden, or framed in marble and pressed with tatami mats.
COMMON SPACES: Rooms are partitioned by shoji screens, which slide and are webbed with rice paper; floors are covered with tatami mats of woven straw.
A glass box kitchen connects the lofty pine-beamed living room to the bathrooms, closets and bedrooms, which are adorned with tatami mats.
Traditional Japanese bedding, the use of which persisted in the late 20th century, consisted of quilted padding and coverlets called futons arranged directly on the floor, which was covered with tatami, or resilient mats of woven fibre.
Creating a quietly theatrical convergence of East and West, Chir Wei Jane's "Yellow Rest Station" is a meditation room with tatami mats and a video projection of overlapping images of windows and busy subway platforms.
