About us
Roman & Anastasia
We study the Way of Tea.
Since 2016
A life given to tea
In 2016 Roman, then a banker from Moscow, believed in a table that did not yet exist: a slab of petrified wood that the masters of Indonesia had refused to carve. It became the first Dragon Tea Table, and the beginning of ARTEAFACT.
Since then we have lived on Bali, where every day begins with a ceremony. For more than ten years we have studied the Way of Tea with masters in China, Taiwan and Japan.
We were not born into this tradition. We chose it, and we keep studying it. What we learn becomes a table, a bowl, a Tea House.
Today ARTEAFACT is an international house of fine tea culture: objects, spaces and practice, for life and for business.
5 Tea Houses · 100+ table owners · 1,000+ clients and students in 12+ countries · 3,000+ ceremonies
The founders
Two people, one Way.
Roman Korotkin
Founder
Leads the studio, the production of the tables and every project from first meeting to opening. Mentors those who want to go further on the Way of Tea.
Anastasia
Creative director · Tea master
Shapes the aesthetics of every Tea House and leads our teaching: ceremonies, lessons and the training of tea masters.
Two traditions
Where Chinese tea culture meets Japanese aesthetics
From China · the content
Tea, gongfu cha, teaware, jade. The old arts: the I Ching, feng shui, qigong.
From Japan · the form
The tea house. Tatami, light through paper, the scroll on the wall. Wabi-sabi and ma, the meaningful emptiness.
Lineage
What we pass on, we received
Our teachers
Masters in China, Taiwan and Japan, with whom we still study.
Master Bo
The tea in every Tea House we build comes from his clean collection, chosen leaf by leaf.
Bronislav Vinogrodsky
Sinologist, writer and translator of ancient Chinese treatises. He entrusted his jade collection to us. The collection
Our students
One of them is now the resident tea master of Nomad Tea Temple in Sintra.
Come to the table
Share a bowl of tea with us
The simplest way to know us is a ceremony. On Bali, by arrangement.
