Wabi-Sabi Home by Mark Bailey
Author:Mark Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Published: 2020-08-08T00:00:00+00:00
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CRAFTED
There is joy in the act of making â regardless of the artistic merit of the end result â but there is also a lifetime of pleasure to be had from enjoying the fruits of othersâ labour. It is easy to admire the high level of skill, perhaps passed down through generations, that goes into embroidering a suzani wall hanging or making a porcelain pot so thin that it seems magically infused with daylight. The wabi-sabi home also champions more workaday handmade objects. Although we live in a mass-produced world, it is relatively easy and inexpensive to introduce, say, a few carved spoons for the kitchen, or woven bowls for storing small treasures. You may also gain more pleasure from seemingly prosaic things, because you touch and use them every day.
Craft is an important component of wabi-sabi. Anything that bears the hand of its maker, from stitching to brush strokes, instills a sense of authenticity and honesty; it literally bestows on your home the human touch. As many of our lives become more and more removed from the physical world and face-to-face relationships, craft is a vital touchstone. Handmade and mass-produced can also make a winning combination â place a mid-century light beside a hand-turned bowl and one will throw the other into relief, the contrast bringing out the best in both.
The handmade can often be thrifty and ingenious in its reuse of things that are leftover or forgotten. Many of the people featured in this book have used their creative skills to add a handmade element, from using scraps of old fabric to wrap around wire coat-hangers to skilled cabinetmaking. It is their way of creating a home that is tailor-made to their needs and tastes. And although making or reinventing your own possessions is not a requirement for the wabi-sabi home, it will give you a degree of enrichment that is hard to match.
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