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Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Leonard Koren
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Essay 1994
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Leonard Koren1994
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Synopsis
The Japanese aesthetic of imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness explained for Westerners.
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Leonard Koren, 1994 — Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
The Japanese aesthetic of imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness explained for Westerners.
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Lets the power thread settle into a deeper essay form.
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The Japanese aesthetic of imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness explained for Westerners.
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