Broken Can Be Beautiful: Spaces by Jacflash Experiments With Kintsugi

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Kintsugi (金継ぎ, きんつぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, きんつくろい, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered goldsilver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.


The Japanese believe when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful. It's time we rethink our philosophy on aging.



We adore the idea of filling in the cracks on concrete floor.


and cracked tile.


Stronger and more beautiful, like this piece of Kintsugi pottery



and this kintsugi coffee table.

We are not only in love with look of kintsugi, but also what it represents, that imperfection is a form of freedom and it's metaphor for life where "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places". -Ernest Hemmingway