Japanese ceramics pottery wabi sabi

Wabi-Sabi is a Japanese philosophy embracing beauty in imperfection, simplicity, and natural aging. Rooted in Zen, it values items and moments that are worn or incomplete, finding charm in the imperfect. Wabi-Sabi decor uses natural materials, earthy colors, and organic shapes, creating a calm, grounded space that feels mindful and authentic. It’s more than a style, it’s a way of seeing beauty in life’s fleeting, simple moments.

DIY Japanese Kintsugi Art Alrighty guys, todays DIY is sooo different from any DIY I’ve ever done!! Today we are learning how to make Japanese Kintsugi, which if you’re not familiar is “the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold.” While I

Specializing in Japanese fine art for over forty years, Joan B Mirviss LTD features Japanese screens and scrolls, woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), and most prominently, modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics at its Madison Avenue gallery. Joan B Mirviss LTD continues to bring audiences in New York, around the country and abroad, the very best in Japanese fine art, featuring solo and collaborative shows by important ceramists and thematic exhibitions of paintings, screens, prints and ceramics…

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What is wabi-sabi? It seems to be popping up everywhere but have you ever wondered what it actually meant? I break down the concept for you.

Wabi-sabi is natural, a way of life, a beauty of something that either moves towards or from nothingness. It is the beauty of the imperfect, impermanent, incomplete, modest, humble and unconventional. The word wabi refers to a spiritual path, the subjective, the philosophical and spatial. Sabi refer

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