Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets And Philosophers

By Leonard Koren
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An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

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Overview

Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets And Philosophers

Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional....

About the author

Leonard Koren was trained as an architect but never built anything—except an eccentric Japanese tea house—because he found large, permanent objects too philosophically vexing to design. Instead, he created WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, one of the premier avant-garde magazines of the 1970s. Since then, Koren has produced books about design (Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement) and aesthetics (Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean: Ten Definitions).

Pages

96

Language
  • ENG- English
Publisher

Imperfect Publishing

Format
  • Paperback
Size

5.5 x 8.5 Inches

ISBN

978-0981484600

About the author

Leonard Koren

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