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KINTSUGI -ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR PORTFOLIO 2018  Kintsugi means, literally, ‘to join with gold’. In Zen aesthetics, the broken pieces of an accidentally-smashed pot should be carefully picked up, reassembled and then glued together with lacquer inflected with a very luxuriant gold powder. There should be no attempt to disguise the damage, the point is to render the fault-lines beautiful and strong. The precious veins of gold are there to emphasise that breaks have a philosophically-rich merit Kintsugi Architecture Concept, Kintsugi Interior Design, Kintsugi Architecture, Kintsugi Aesthetic, Interior Portfolio, Architecture Concept Drawings, Broken Pieces, Architecture Design Concept, Gold Powder

Kintsugi means, literally, ‘to join with gold’. In Zen aesthetics, the broken pieces of an accidentally-smashed pot should be carefully picked up, reassembled and then glued together with lacquer inflected with a very luxuriant gold powder. There should be no attempt to disguise the damage, the point is to render the fault-lines beautiful and strong. The precious veins of gold are there to emphasise that breaks have a philosophically-rich merit all of their own. Just like Kintsugi, at first…

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