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The dark, heavy shou sugi ban, or burnt Japanese wood, contrasts with the airy, light glass cube on the upper level, above the living room.

Shou sugi ban is a Japanese technique of waterproofing boards by charring them.

Shou sugi ban, the ancient Japanese technique of charring exterior wood, became a thing.

But such dark, reptilian wood is also startling and gorgeously eerie; a shou sugi ban house looks like it floated out of a dream.

The shelves and partitions dividing them are made of blackened wood that replicates the Japanese shou sugi ban method of charring cedar to preserve it.