Description
In Japan, ancient aesthetics predicate what is considered beautiful, even in today’s contemporary context. Two such aesthetics are wabi (transient and stark beauty) and sabi (the beauty of natural patina and aging). According to Leonard Koren, author of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers collectively wabi-sabi is defined as ‘the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, the antithesis of our classical Western notion of beauty as something perfect, enduring, and monumental’.


