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Green Geometry

Near West Lake, an intimate interior turned scale, colour, and breakfast into a small discovery.

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Alicia Dai in an emerald dress beside a tiled pool in Hangzhou
Hangzhou / Personal archive / 2024
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Near West Lake, an intimate interior turned scale, colour, and breakfast into a small discovery.

Near West Lake, Alicia found a hotel that felt unexpectedly transported: emerald water, patterned tile, warm geometry, and rooms composed at an intimate scale. Its appeal was not grandeur, but the concentration of thought inside something small.

She noticed the restaurant, the bar, and a breakfast served individually rather than spread across a buffet. The photograph keeps that same precision. Green dress and green water meet without disappearing into one another—a quiet study in how design can alter the mood of a day.

Small can still contain an entire atmosphere.
From Alicia Dai's personal archiveEdited from creator-authored notes
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