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Wabi-Sabi Welcome

admin — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:57:50 +0000

Wabi-Sabi Welcome by Julie Pointer Adams is the perfect book to spend a rainy afternoon with. The first time I read it was on a sunny train trip, though. The book is based on the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy that is often considered an aesthetic although it reaches way beyond the visual. In Wabi-Sabi Welcome, the philosophy is […]

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Breathe

admin — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 04:55:47 +0000

I had a weird relationship with dried flowers for many years after reading in some Feng Shui booklet that they bring dead energy into a space. Luckily, I am now convinced that my place has a lively and flowing energy, even though I sometimes dry flowers. A way to enjoy dried flowers in the spirit […]

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The way of tea

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 06:59:06 +0000

Along with its traditional use in tea ceremonies, matcha makes for a delicious sweet treat.

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Wabi what?

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 07:00:45 +0000

Wabi-sabi is a japanese aesthetics and philosophy focused on accepting the temporary and changing nature of things. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. In the wabi-sabi universe, things are always either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness. The material characteristics of wabi-sabi aesthetics include simplicity, asymmetry, roughness, irregularity, intimacy, and appreciation […]

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Smells like the Mediterranean

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 06:56:42 +0000

Private 0204 is a Danish textile house known for their revitalized and re-designed vintage rugs. Each rug is an individual, a handspun pure hemp kelim rug with a forty to fifty years history. It has a lovely, soft finish, and its age is one of its best features. The rugs have been collected throughout the […]

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Axel Vervoordt’s wabi spirit

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:59:38 +0000

Belgian art & antiques dealer and interior designer Axel Vervoordt was one of the first names that came up when I started investigating wabi-sabi. Vervoordt has borrowed the term Wabi from Japanese and created his own personal concept around it. “Elegance in natural materials, nobility without sophistication and timelessness within tradition” are the principles of […]

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Kintsugi

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:56:05 +0000

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining broken pieces with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. Literally the word kintsugi means “golden joinery”. In wabi-sabi spirit, breakage and repair are treated as part of the history the object, something to appreciate, rather than something to disguise. I found the most inspiring example of […]

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Dream stay

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:54:13 +0000

Created with their signature Wabi style by designer Axel Vervoordt and architect Tatsuro Miki, the giant penthouse at the Greenwich Hotel in TriBeCa, New York, is like a dream. Even more than the hotel’s visuals online, I fell in love with the details in Garance Doré’s photo story posted two years ago. You might have […]

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Summer library

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 05:00:12 +0000

There is more waiting, but first these five...

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