wabi-sabi The Japanese art of imperfect beauty. Accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay in which everything has beauty [ a concept]:
HOME & COTTAGE - DESIGN TRENDS
It began in the 90s with the “distressed” movement, crawled into the early 2000s with shabby chic, and by the 2010s, antiques and re-purposed building materials became the go-to in many designers’ repertoires. Things that are old and look it give us a different kind of feeling-one that shiny new things can’t replicate. While slow to emerge in the western psyche, this aesthetic connection to the distressed and patinated has been deeply ingrained in eastern culture for centuries and is referred to as wabi-sabi. T he “worn-in” aesthetic has been finding its way into design trends for the past few decades.
Words and photos by Darrell Mahoney
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