Many are turning instead to a more subtle aesthetic that has been humming along quietly in the background. That is, to the design culture of Japan, whose influence has surfaced in Western ...

And as a kind of “Japanese aesthetic” has become popularized, especially in recent years — as Japanese cultural exports have become sought after overseas — studios have attempted to ...

“Classical Japanese philosophy,” Graham Parkes and Adam Loughnane summarize in Japanese Aesthetics, “understands reality as constant change, or (to use a Buddhist expression) impermanence…. Awareness ...

The small team of designers and engineers at Zenical have created a new collection of pens capturing Japanese ascetics ... more about the pens design and aesthetics. “We believe that to lead ...

Like the kintsugi floor tile, the console table’s burned finish was a nod to Japanese aesthetics, in this case the treatment known as shou sugi ban. A mountain silhouette in the primary bedroom ...