A Record of Scenery | Fukuoka — "Haru to Coffee" Exhibition Gallery

A cup of coffee, and forty-six years of stillness.

Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. Away from the noise of the city, in a place only a few ever find — "Haru to Coffee."

Amid a quiet room lined with antique furniture shaped by time, NoelHatch's pieces have settled in, as if they had always belonged there.

The texture of plaster, struck and carved by the craftsman Norio Takeuchi, resonates with the aroma of coffee brewed by the shop's owner.

It is the moment a piece stops being merely a "pot," and begins to breathe as part of the room itself.