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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
by Leonard Koren
The slim 1994 book that introduced wabi-sabi to the West: beauty of the imperfect, impermanent, incomplete, with images and principles.
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Three things you will actually use
- Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect.
- Beauty in the modest.
- Truth from observing nature.
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Read it in an hour, slowly.
Our verdict
Koren's wabi-sabi.
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