ABOUT THE PROJECT

• Dimensions:  15m²
• Build time: 1 week

We completed two indoor gardens in RAI, a Japanese restaurant just off Tottenham Court Road in London. In an intimate setting, the owners wanted guests to be immersed in nature during their meal.

The first garden features a 40cm Sumo san lantern with bespoke light diffusers and tall Tenshi standing stones set against the black Oak wall panels. In front of the window, we installed a traditional Japanese water basin arrangement with an elegant Oribe lantern.

On the other side of the entrance, the second garden featured 5 blue-grey granite standing stones with underplanting. A flat top rock features a unique lantern that we made up using natural flat top pieces of rock and a bespoke light box. The concept is ‘Islands in a sea of gravel’ with preserved moss creating the landmass. The gardens were top dressed with our 6mm silver-grey Zen gravel and Kuro basalt cobbles.

The restaurant has two planters outside where we created a contemporary standing stone feature using square Palisades. Either side we planted a combination of bamboo and Pieris. The planters were dressed with 14mm silver-grey Zen gravel.

All indoor artificial plants were supplied by Interior Landscaping products.

www.rairestaurant.com/