As society becomes increasingly fast-paced and chaotic, many of us are seeking ways to create a sense of calm and tranquility ...

For the many twists and turns life entails, and the unexpected that may come to either shatter or complete everything you have built for yourself, Pau Javier of Wabi Sabi Studio has come to embrace ...

There is a Japanese philosophy — wabi-sabi — that sees the world as impermanent, imperfect and incomplete. Neal Joiner, an art student at Southeast Missouri State University, said he used this ...

Susie Crippen doesn’t like anything to be too perfect. When she started making ceramics, she created a couple of pieces where she pulled too much or pushed too hard — “technically mistakes,” she says.

After taking off in America and other countries, the phrase ‘wabi-sabi’ was imported back to Japan as a compound term. In it, in an essay titled, “The Beauty of Irregularity,” Yanagi wrote about the ...

On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore in Manhattan. Among the English-language books about Japan, I encountered a section of a shelf marked “WABI-SABI” and stocked with ...