Bamboo basketwork was first invented by the Chinese people during the New Stone Age. Ancient people wore a large bamboo hat to protect them from rain and bamboo shoes to walk on muddy roads. Bamboo ...
Wandering around a Paris craft shop one day in 1989, Shigeru Ban came across a Chinese bamboo hat. Picking it up, the Japanese architect was intrigued by its design. "I was amazed by the combination ...