Leonard Koren

Leonard Koren’s new book, Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts, is a useful complement to Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, his seminal volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. An important book for thoughtful creators. Presented by Point Reyes Books.

About Leonard Koren: Leonard Koren, who trained as an artist and architect, co-founded the Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, a mural painting group seminal in the development of urban street art. Subsequently Koren created and published “WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing,” a periodical influential in the development of Postmodern design sensibility. In 1994 Koren wrote Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers, the book that introduced the Japanese concept of things “imperfect impermanent and incomplete” into Western aesthetic discourse.