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House of Light

Artist James Turrell is known worldwide as "the artist of light." His artworks take time to experience, time to take in the passage of time and changing shades of light. So in 2000, as part of the First Echigo-Tsumari Triennial art event in Niigata Prefecture near the Japan Sea coast, Turrell designed an inn where one can spend a day and a night enveloped in his world of light and shadow. Architect Daigo Ishii designed the building in Japanese style with tatami-mated rooms, wooden-floored corridors, verandahs, and yukimi-Shoiji, paper doors with cut-out windows for viewing de deep snow for which the Niigata region is known.


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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Key to James Turrell's image of the house is the concept
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Key to James Turrell's image of the house is the concept
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Key to James Turrell's image of the house is the concept
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Key to James Turrell's image of the house is the concept
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Key to James Turrell's image of the house is the concept
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Bath entry, lit by a skyspace, revealing the earthen texture of the interior walls.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Wooden stool and bucket beside the bath in daylight
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - A skyspace illuminating the entry to the bath, and a blue light around the perimeter, are mirrored in still water.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - A skyspace illuminating the entry to the bath, and a blue light around the perimeter, are mirrored in still water.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - The wooden-grid wall along this traditional steep staircase is punctuated below the banister with illuminated panels.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Golden hue of the ceiling panel contrasts with the white of papered shoji doors.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Golden light from the ceiling and translucent shoji doors are reflected on the wooden floors of the entryway.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - A room framed by yellow light from the skyspace above and natural light from the outside.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Morning light washes over guest bedding in the
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - A wide verandah, ideal for viewing the natural surrounds, wraps around the
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Shoji doors of the
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Running the length of the exterior is a pathway of irregularly placed stepping stones laid in a bed of gravel.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Light plays upon the shoji doors, open to the pathway of white stepping stones laid in a bed of small black pebbles.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Running the length of the exterior is a pathway of irregularly placed stepping stones laid in a bed of gravel.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Glass panes protect the paper within these shoji doors, allowing their use in non-traditional spaces like this modern kitchen.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Warm light suffuses the wooden corridor lined with shoji doors.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Golden-lit doors of the first-floor corridor look out onto gravel, stepping stones, and the trees beyond
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - The ocher-painted surface on the ground floor walls glows red under evening light.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Light from the colonaded interior cascades down the grand exterior staircase.
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House of Light by James Turrell and Daigo Ishii Tokamachi, Niigata - Constructed in traditional sukiya style, with a pillared verandah and gently slanting gabled and hipped roofs, the House of Light glows against the darkening sky.
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