{"product_id":"wabi-sabi-for-artists-designers-poets-philosophers","title":"Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets \u0026 Philosophers","description":"\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"pdp-tab-description\" id=\"pdp-tabpanel-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiBox-root mui-style-1sf3xto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiCollapse-root DetailsTabs_collapsed-content__4AYQf DetailsTabs_desktop__DwUJ1 MuiCollapse-vertical MuiCollapse-entered DetailsTabs_expanded-content__Rh_0_ mui-style-c4sutr\" style=\"min-height: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiCollapse-wrapper MuiCollapse-vertical mui-style-hboir5\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiCollapse-wrapperInner MuiCollapse-vertical mui-style-8atqhb\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 DetailsTabs_html-content__dQoL5 mui-style-tgrox\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete...\u003cbr\u003eWabi-sabi could even be called the \"Zen of things,\" as it exemplifies many of Zen's core spiritual-philosophical tenets...\u003cbr\u003eWabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. It occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWabi-sabi, in its purest, most idealized form, is precisely about the delicate traces, the faint evidence, at the borders of nothingness . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor 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 leonardkoren.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imperfect Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51427874308385,"sku":"9780981484600","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9780981484600.jpg?v=1751087410","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/wabi-sabi-for-artists-designers-poets-philosophers","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}