The Beauty of Everyday Things

The Beauty of Everyday ThingsOur lives are filled with objects. Everyday things used in everyday settings, they are our constant companions. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and simple, sturdy and safean aesthetic fulfillment of our practical needs. They should, in short, be things of beauty. Long revered as the authority on craftsmanship and Japanese aesthetics, Yanagi

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We asked our friends at Handmade La Conner if they could make us a custom soap using hinoki oil

Blackwing presents the perfect tool to get your Blackwing as sharp as possible

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largely in part to the company's practice of having their glassblowers also act as their lead designers behind their collections - a rarity in the glass-works world

75” diameter (set of five flakes)

This stackable mug set is part of renowned design duo Massimo and Lella Vignelli's iconic dinnerware

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The result is spirited

The funny names--from Snufkin to Fillyjonk--beg to be sounded out and repeated again and again

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