Wabi-sabi Home Finding Beauty In Imperfection. Find beauty and harmony in the unfinished fleeting modest and simple things in life. Emerging in the 15th century as a reaction to the prevailing aesthetic of lavishness ornamentation and rich materials wabi-sabi is the art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in earthiness of revering authenticity above all.
In Japan the concept is now so deeply ingrained that its difficult to explain to Westerners. It is not a decorating style but a concept that celebrates the imperfect the transient and the time-worn. Welcome to Wabi Sabi.
Its simple slow and unclutteredand it reveres authenticity above all.
Embrace the ancient Japanese philosophy of wabi sabi and appreciate the imperfect impermanent and incomplete. It is not a decorating style but a concept that celebrates the imperfect the transient and the time-worn. Theres no hard-and-fast way to emulate or translate the wabi-sabi philosophy into home decor but we spoke to a handful. Wabi-sabi is the Japanese ancient philosophy of finding beauty in the imperfect and embracing the humble.