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  • Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

    Pensée du lundi 3 août 2009

  • Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Admittedly, the beauty of wabi-sabi is not to everyone’s liking.

    Pensée du lundi 3 août 2009

  • Admittedly, the beauty of wabi-sabi is not to everyone’s liking.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • They invite a certain kind of reverie, and like his photographs they also invite solitary contemplation of the time-worn objects within them, often touched by what the Japanese call sabi, a quality of noble shabbiness.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • They invite a certain kind of reverie, and like his photographs they also invite solitary contemplation of the time-worn objects within them, often touched by what the Japanese call sabi, a quality of noble shabbiness.

    On Slowness Bruce Schauble 2007

  • It's a farm lot concept, so malaki siya at maganda 'yong view and I promised my kids that I will give them a swimming pool with a water slide para happy na sila at saka sabi ni Josh, gusto niya rin ng ja-kuzzi sa pool.

    Home Dominic Rea 2010

  • It was inspired by this Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which is about beauty and impermanence at the same time.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Gothic Revival was born from the appreciation of picturesque ruins, but even a twentieth century hipster might talk of wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic appreciation of transcience.

    March « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • The Gothic Revival was born from the appreciation of picturesque ruins, but even a twentieth century hipster might talk of wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic appreciation of transcience.

    Ruined gothic « Squares of Wheat 2009

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  • approximately: bittersweet beauty in agedness or impermanence

    December 2, 2006