Kintsugi: the art of placing pieces back together.

In Japan, broken objects are often repaired with gold. The flaw is seen as a unique piece of the object’s history, which adds to its beauty.

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken

pottery by using a precious metal liquid gold or liquid silver to bring together the pieces of a broken pottery item and at the same time enhance the breaks.

The technique consists in joining fragments and giving them a new, more refined aspect.

Every repaired piece becomes unique, for the randomness with which ceramics shatters and the irregular patterns formed that are enhanced with the use of metals.

Japanese aesthetic values marks of wear from the use of an object. Even breakage and repair are part of the history of an object, which makes an object different from another.

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