{"product_id":"copy-of-wabi-sabi-for-artists-designers-poets-philosophers","title":"Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Leonard Koren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e is a complement to \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bellocq.com\/products\/wabi-sabi-for-designers\"\u003eWabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets \u0026amp; Philosophers\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ethe seminal volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional...\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLeonard Koren was trained as an architect but never built anything except an eccentric Japanese tea house. Instead he shifted an education in urban planning to a career in art, working across the States, writing in Japan, and creating \u003ci\u003eWET: the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the premier avant-garde magazines of the 1970s. Koren has produced several books about design and aesthetics (i.e. \u003ci\u003eArranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhich \"Aesthetics\" Do You Mean: Ten Definitions\u003c\/i\u003e), and remains preeminent in the design field for articulating the Japanese theory of \u003cem\u003ewabi-sabi\u003c\/em\u003e to the Western World. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leonard Koren","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":776604418066,"sku":"B-WSFT","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0041\/3842\/products\/wabi_sabi_further_thoughts.jpg?v=1571438534","url":"https:\/\/www.bellocqtea.mom\/products\/copy-of-wabi-sabi-for-artists-designers-poets-philosophers","provider":"BELLOCQ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}