Recently I got my hands on a book called «Contemporary wabi-sabi style» (Artpower International Publishing, 2025). Not the easiest book to find locally, but I managed to order it off of Amazon. This book is a collection of modern projects that are designed in the spirit of the Japanese aesthetic concept of wabi sabi. Wabi (侘び) refers to utter simplicity, or the appreciation of a higher beauty amid apparent lack of beauty. Sabi (寂び) is the appreciation of the patina of use and age. Taken together, wabi sabi is the search for beauty in the imperfect. When you accept things as they are and do not try to improve them, there is more time left to just enjoy these things. Imperfection is not something to be endured. It is an integral part of life we must learn to accept and celebrate, and is perhaps life's truest expression. This is a philosophy that I have always personally been inspired by, and I try to incorporate it into my own projects. The pictures in this book are beautiful, and a usef