House Of Wabi Sabi Leicester. The Wabi Sabi House started from such a place. As you might know wabi-sabi is the Japanese word for imperfect beauty.
Our point of beginning was a small one bedroom 1950s house set beside a wide stand of trees. Doing more with less is a Modernist evolution of the wabi-sabi idea. The Wabi-Sabi House recounts the rich history of this emerging trend in home design and reveals countless ways to introduce wabi-sabi elements into contemporary living spaces including tips for gracefully decorating with salvaged materials and vintage furnishings advice on how to rediscover the lost joy of hand-crafting household items or.
10 minutes walk to Jiyugaoka station.
Originally Wabi-Sabi is two words with two different meanings that over time have been associated together like the word ping-pong. As you might know wabi-sabi is the Japanese word for imperfect beauty. In truth wabi-sabi is around us everywhere and we are often drawn more to imperfection than we are. Jean and I are fans of the wabi-sabi concept which teaches that beauty lies in imperfection Built in the 19th century the property was in a bad way when they acquired it.