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![]() ![]() Craftsmanship bearing the tell-tale traces of the human hand. To see the ethos of wabi sabi at work as both a visual style and a lifestyle, look to Villa Terra -a tranquil, 14-acre estate in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Instead, it’s a lived, aesthetic experience that permeates the everyday-making the mundane appear sublime. ![]() ![]() Unlike a typical Western understanding of philosophy, wabi sabi can’t be reduced to tenets, axioms, or principles, nor can it be summed up by a set of stylistic rules. Is wabi sabi a philosophy or a design style? It’s notoriously difficult to delineate as a concept -so much so that in Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence, author Andrew Juniper notes that “even the most ambitious Japanese scholars would give it a wide berth and uphold the Japanese tradition of talking about it in only the most poetic terms.” Dana Lansing – Kurfiss Sotheby’s International Realty ![]()
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