Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

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Leonard Koren provides a definitive introduction to the elusive Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi. This classic work explores a worldview centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. By contrasting this ancient philosophy with modern Western ideals of perfection and permanence, Koren offers readers a new lens through which to view beauty. He explains how the understated and the decayi…

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