After taking off in America and other countries, the phrase ‘wabi-sabi’ was imported back to Japan as a compound ... but it really took off as an aesthetic ideal in the 17th century.

While painting is preeminent in the 90-odd works shown in "Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan" at the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO), it is mostly peripheral to the better ...

Wabi-sabi is a traditional Japanese aesthetic that celebrates imperfections and natural elements. It's a design approach that ...

Many are turning instead to a more subtle aesthetic that has been humming along quietly in the background. That is, to the design culture of Japan, whose influence has surfaced in Western ...

Everything about this slim tome — from its meandering, contemplative style to its thorough, varied exploration of Japanese aesthetics — informs on the Japanese character and culture like no ...

But it’s actually an ancient idea. For hundreds of years, Japan’s dominant aesthetic has been wabi sabi, which values the impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete. You know wabi sabi ...

Simplicity and purity are the hallmarks of Japanese aesthetics, and Karasawa’s Oregon clients desire the less-is-more approach also championed by early modernists like architects Ludwig Mies van ...

An interior designer, diploma in hand, opened a practice in the Alps, vowing to leave ski chalets in the dust. Florent Breton’s condo in Crans-Montana, a Swiss ski resort, is both refuge and ...