The Teahouse

During the summers of 2015 and 2016, friends, family, and Studio members came together to build a teahouse on a remote Maine island where Brendan spends time each summer running Islesford Boatworks, a nonprofit youth education program he started with his siblings in 2006. The 10 foot square Teahouse was inspired by a letter Brendan's father wrote in 1983 to a local builder, inquiring about building a small teahouse on the shores of an old ice pond on the property. The letter told the story of how the building would be a thank you present to the couple who sold the land to the Ravenhills, and who had always imagined that the forested banks of the ice pond would be a lovely place to have a spot of tea. Nothing ever came of that original letter, and Brendan's father passed away some years later. But 30 years on, the idea of pond-side teahouse finally became a reality.