Interior design guru Axel Vervoordt shares his latest inspirations for the home. Axel Vervoordt’s intense curiosity has fueled his work as an interior designer, spurring him to explore and draw inspiration from cultures around the globe. He was first exposed to Eastern art and philosophy years ago, but today it has become the guiding principle in his work, particularly the concept of Wabi. Developed in the twelfth century, Wabi advocates simplicity and humility, the rejection of all that is superfluous or artificial. Through extraordinary photographs from Japan and Korea to Belgium and Switzerland, Vervoordt invites us to explore the elements that inspire him: natural materials and time-worn objects that evoke the essence of Wabi. Today, together with the Japanese architect Tatsuro Miki, Vervoordt carries the principles of Wabi into his remarkable interiors. As Vervoordt reveals how he infuses his current creations with a fundamentally oriental approach, interiors devotees will gain new insight from this tribute to the designer’s latest sources of inspiration for the home.
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modern wabi sabi its a kind of book i enjoy to have it in my library. it goes right beside the books like “the new zen” and similar about japanese minimalistic principle that existed the for at least 500years. the pictures are beautiful in their beuty and exposing the right way the principle of japanese wabi-sabi. the beauty all around us that we might never see it without even reading about wabi-sabi. anyway, is not an easy task to express wabi-sabi in art, graphic design and interior design, but in this book…
flawless concept but inappropriate quality 0
Pretty Book, Awful Content – Unless You Are A Millionaire! First, this book is constructed of beautiful materials. The paper weight and texture are amazing and of finest quality. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and are essentially the best part of this book. The text itself is awful, and could benefit from the heavy hand (red pen) of an editor. All the pages of text could be condensed–removing all trite phrases and zen-style attempts at platitudes–into perhaps two meaningful paragraphs. This volume is the absolute height of pretense…