Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren, who trained as an artist and architect, is a leading design and aesthetics theorist.
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Leonard Koren, who trained as an artist and architect, is a leading design and aesthetics theorist.
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Leonard Koren's Books
Koren wastes no time in this concise text, briefly tracing the roots of wabi-sabi, the history of its obfuscation, and then laying out its qualities and principles with maximum clarity. Beautiful photographs accompany the delicately printed text and Koren provides an illuminating comparison with mod...
The irony of trying to say something categorical about wabi-sabi isn't lost on this author. As a Western, modernist, taxonomically-driven type, I appreciated it, however antithetical it may be to the essence of wabi-sabi. Generally enjoyable as a pensee or exercise. It ends rather suddenly, which I ...
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