Tobia Scarpa and «tea culture»

When conceived in the best possible way, a design
idea is a work of art and only its master can bring
out its extraordinary and noble qualities. If we
made believe that we were in the Orient talking to
a tea master, he would tell us that there are good
teas and bad teas, in the same way that there are
beautiful works and ugly works. However, no master
would give us the best recipe for preparing a good
tea, because no such recipe exists, in the same way
that the splendour of the European Renaissance
and of the Italian Renaissance, in particular, was not produced by a fixed set of rules.