Imagine a beloved object: a cup, a plate or a bowl. Perhaps your favourite auntie owned it, or was it found in another country and shipped safely home? Now it is broken, fallen into a small handful of ...

What is broken cannot be mended, goes a popular saying. But the Japanese think otherwise as they embrace the concept of wabi-sabi, a philosophy that strives for beauty in imperfections. Kintsugi, the ...