In today’s world, people often try to hide their flaws and aim for perfection. However, the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi ...

The technique of repairing obviously fascinated 19th-century Western collectors. At this time, the Western practice was to buy new, as a result of the industrial period when capitalism was born.

Meaning “joining with gold”, this centuries-old art is more than an aesthetic. For the Japanese, it’s part of a broader philosophy of embracing the beauty of human flaws.

A technique to repair broken pots Kintsugi was fairly widespread in Japan around the late 16th and early 17th centuries . The origins of this aesthetic go back hundreds of years to the Muromachi ...

I pulled out my kintsugi kit and made a glue out of tree sap and clay powder. Similarly in coaching, we pull tools from our coaching toolkit to help our clients grow and reinforce their positive ...

'As an act of care, kintsugi is more than a metaphor for rebuilding,' says Naoko Fukumaru of the 500-year-old practice of repairing broken pottery with gold. Naoko Fukumaru, Bowels of The Earth ...

Kintsugi makes something new from a broken pot, which is transformed to possess a different sort of beauty. The imperfection, the golden cracks, are what make the new object unique. They are there ...

In this episode of Modern Builds, I turned a cracked concrete tabletop into a design statement—using a DIY version of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing with gold. This round coffee table ...