Blending

The Medium between Wabi Sabi

and Modernist Design

Allison Driesenga

“A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travelers to exotic destinations. The sur-est—also the quickest—way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves is to look intently, undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will re-veal itself as something we have never seen before.”

—Cesare Pavese, Dailoghi con Leuco, 1947

“A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentra-tion on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travelers to exotic destinations. The surest—also the quickest—way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves is to look intently, undeterred, at a sin-gle object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will reveal itself as something we have never seen before.”—Cesare Pavese, Dailoghi con Leuco,

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—Cesare Pavese, Dailoghi con Leuco, 1947

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“A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from

stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in

league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travelers to

exotic destinations. The surest—also the quickest—way to

awake the sense of wonder in ourselves is to look intently,

undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will

reveal itself as something we have never seen before.”

—Cesare Pavese, Dailoghi con Leuco, 1947

“A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge

from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I

am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor

with travelers to exotic destinations. The surest—also

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the quickest—way to awake the sense of wonder in

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—Cesare Pavese, Dailoghi con Leuco

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