To Tsai茶室位于Kolonaki的Alexander Soutsou街，是雅典最热闹的地区之一。Kolonaki是一个非常密集的区域，位于lycabetus山的南部，在雅典的考古/机构中心和占据Iycabetus山西部的Exarchia的无政府主义区之间。它被认为是雅典最昂贵的地区，其居民都受过良好的教育和富有。由于其多用途的特点（住宅、办公、零售、娱乐、艺术、机构），它被认为是城市中不夜城的一部分。来自阿提卡盆地的人们和许多游客都来这里参观最新的烹饪实验，或在该地区的多个画廊和设计商店中参观一个展览。事实上，Kolonaki是一个在设计、生活方式、建筑、城市文化方面开放实验的地区，….。

To Tsai Tea Room is located at Alexander Soutsou street in Kolonaki, one of the most lively areas in Athens. Kolonaki is a very dense zone located in the south of lycabetus hill, between the archeological/ institutional center of Athens and the anarchist zone of Exarchia that occupies the west part of the Iycabetus hill. It’s consider to be the most expensive area of Athens and its residents are well educated and wealthy. Because of its multi-use character ( residential, offices, retail, entertainment, art, institutional) it’s consider to be the part of the city that never sleeps. People from all the Attica basin along with a lot of tourist are visiting the area in order to visit the newest culinary experimentation or to visit an exposition in one of the multiple galleries and design stores in the area. In fact Kolonaki is an area the open to experimentation in design, lifestyle, architecture, urban culture….

To tsai茶室是过去十年中在该地区创建的半数茶室中的第一家，位于200米的范围内，提供来自世界各地的500种茶叶。与该地区其他茶室不同的是，除了其惊人的茶叶收藏外，它在翻新后将茶室服务与零售店和以茶为导向的特色餐厅结合在同一空间。它的游客主要是该地区的艺术居民，人们可以看到一些希腊最知名的作家、艺术家和记者，他们正在寻找一个平静的空间，从这个城市的压倒性区域退休。Al Soutsou街是一条相当小的街道，连接着lycabetus街和Dimokritou街，这两条街非常喧闹和活跃。内部空间的无装饰性的简约细节与茶叶的美妙气味和轻柔的音乐相结合，创造了一个禅意的宇宙，让文艺的居民和游客可以从这个城市的嘈杂中退去。

To tsai Tea room it’s the first of half of duzin of tea rooms that were created in the area in the last ten years in a rayon of 200 meters and offer an variety of 500 teas from all over the world. The difference with the other tea room in the area, apart from its amazing collection of teas it’s that after its renovation, it combines the tea room services with a retail shop and a light tea oriented specialties restaurant in the same space. It’s visitors are mainly the artsy residents of the area and one could see some of the most known writers, artists and journalists of Greece that are looking for a calm space to retire from this overwhelming area of the city . Al Soutsou str it’s a quite small street that unite lycabetus str and Dimokritou str that are very noisy and alive. The ornament free minimalistic details of the interior spaces combined with the wonderful odor palette of the teas and the soft music are creating that Zen universe that the artsy residents and tourist could retire from this noisy part of the city

1994年，这里的主人在距离实际翻新的商店几个街区的地方开了一家茶叶进口和零售店。他是第一个在希腊进口优质茶叶的人。2008年，他以茶室/餐厅的形式开了这家真正的茶叶店。一开始生意很好，但自从危机开始后，他的生意开始兴旺起来。问题是，当经济繁荣的时候，希腊的茶叶生意不好，而自从危机开始后，茶叶生意/哲学店对希腊人来说有了很好的共鸣。这就像茶像一剂良药，这很自然，因为危机让希腊人学会了适应更简约的生活方式。这就是危机的好处，这也是使茶的哲学对一些希腊人至关重要的原因。茶文化的成功是现代希腊人文化从物质主义到本质主义缓慢变化的反映。

The owner of the place opened a tea import and retail shop just couple of blocks away from the actual refurbished shop in 1994. He was the first to import good quality tea in Greece. In 2008 he opened the actual tea shop in a form of a tea room/ restaurant. The business were slow in the beginning but since the crisis started his business started to boom. The thing is that when the economy was booming tea business in Greece was bad, and since the crisis started the tea business/philoshophy has a very good resonance to greek people. It’s like tea works like a remedy, and that’s natural because the crisis learn greeks to adapt TO a more minimalistic way of life. That’s the good thing about the crisis, and that’s what made the tea philosophy essential to some of the greek people. Tea culture success it’s a reflexion of the slow change of Modern Greek people culture from materialism to essentialism.

Kolonaki并没有恢复繁荣，而是趋于稳定，它的繁荣是基于物质主义流行文化的酒吧和餐馆，这种生活模式已经消失了，超物质主义已经消失。有趣的是，这里有另一种创造性的空气。一个新的令人惊奇的巧克力店在几个街区外开张了，这是一个巧克力的天堂，每隔几周就会举行一次街头食品节，新的画廊，艺术节，一些令人惊奇的建筑干预，如ONE ATHENS。

Kolonaki it’s not booming back but its stabilizing, its booming was based in a materialistic pop culture bars and restaurants and that mode de vie its gone, supermaterialism it’s gone. What it’s interesting it’s that there is an alternative creative air. A new amazing chocolat place opened couple of blocks away, a chocolate paradise, street food festivals are held every couple of weeks, new galleries, art festivals, couple of amazing architectural interventions like ONE ATHENS,

Architects: Georges Batzios Architects
Area : 120 m²
Year : 2015
Photographs :Konstantinos Kontos
Construction Manager : Georges Batzios Architects
Wood Construction : Mixalis Petritis
Production Manager : Kostas Papatheodorou
Client : Mlesna Hellas
Software : Autocad, Rhinoceros, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop
City : Athina
Country : Greece