LeJardin is a semi-outdoor, trellis-covered alternative to the packed bars of the popular Lan Kwai Fong district located on the streets below, while Feather Boa lacks any sort of signage out front and serves fruity daiquiris in massive glasses with chocolate dusted rims.
Willis soon discovered Jean Gallotti and Albert Laprade's LeJardin et la Maison Arabes au Maroc, a magnificent book featuring Lucien Vogel's photographs of the finest work from the '20s and line drawings clarifying, with great precision, the techniques used naming, for example, each tiny shape that creates the great sunburst of zellige.