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Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
WabiSabi for Artists Designers Poets Philosophers
Author: Leonard Koren
This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of ?imperfect beauty? to the West. Text, images, and book design seamlessly meld into a wabi-sabi-like experience. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete . . . — . . . wabi-sabi could even be called the ?Zen of things,? as it ...  more » 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. Subsequently Koren has produced unusual books about design- and aesthetics-related subjects. Koren resides in both America and Japan. For more information, visit www.leonardkoren.com.
ISBN-13: 9780981484600
ISBN-10: 0981484603
Publication Date: 11/1/2008
Pages: 96
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Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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