Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

This book contains some sort of mind-altering chemical in it's pages. In the following days I've wondered what wabi-sabi web design would look like, if Lady Gaga is a wabi-sabi pop star, and wandering around my home admiring the cracks and inconsistencies in my old apartment. I loved the comparisons to modernism, as well as the bullet-point list of what wabi-sabi is about. This work stands in stark contrast to the vague descriptions I've read elsewhere, without invalidating the built-in vagueness of wabi-sabi itself.

I don't buy books until I've already read them and know I'll love them, and I'll be buying this one.

If you don't know much about wabi-Sabine's, join the club.

Then read this book.

Beautiful and thoughtful little book. Do read the text notes and photo descriptions at the back: they add a lot of context and concrete examples to the ideas discussed in the text.