Java Style

Overview

From trendy Soho galleries to lakeside cottages, Java's unique visual culture serves as inspiration for people looking for unique interior design ideas.

A highly refined aesthetic, a rich history at the crossroads of Asia, and the materials and sensual possibilities afforded by a tropical environment have all led to the creation of the exquisite Java style. International photographer Tara Sosrowardoyo captures the diverse range of Java's architectural landscape: a five-hundred-year-old mosque's pavilions, the linked colonnades of the palaces of Java's sultans, neoclassical verandahs of a colonial administrator's villa, the cloistered courtyard of an 18th-century Chinese mansion, public buildings that form part of the greatest flowering of art deco outside Europe, and much more.