For this space, inspiration was drawn from the fragranced fog around the sacred lotus flower, usually shrouded in a light early morning mist when in bloom. In Japan, fog represents profundity and ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...