honeybeesPost 8 When we visited the home of my step-son in Ireland, they had an old, well-built home that had a keeping room. This was a fascinating house, but did not have a big open area like many of the newer homes have. There were many smaller rooms scattered throughout […]
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How Two Children Are Keeping Their Father’s Design Legacy Alive
IN 1933, THE JAPANESE philosopher and art historian Soetsu Yanagi published an essay, “What Is Folk Craft?,” that would become a foundational text of the mingei (folk craft) movement that reshaped Japanese aesthetics in the mid-20th century. In his writing, Yanagi proposed a revindication of “a provincial industry” of handmade […]