Tagebuch

Essays zur japanischen Textilgeschichte, zum Handwerk und zur Kultur der zeremoniellen Seide – neben Anleitungen zur Pflege und zum Leben mit Vintage-Seidenobjekten.

Why Boutique Hotels Are Acquiring Unrepeatable ...

There is a moment hoteliers recognise. A guest checks in, walks to their room, and comes back to the desk. Not because something is wrong. Because something stopped them. They...

Why Boutique Hotels Are Acquiring Unrepeatable ...

There is a moment hoteliers recognise. A guest checks in, walks to their room, and comes back to the desk. Not because something is wrong. Because something stopped them. They...

Die Seide, die wir vergaßen

Before there were borders or nations, before the word luxury had been invented and quietly ruined, there was a thread. On the five-thousand-year origins of silk and the memory that...

Die Seide, die wir vergaßen

Before there were borders or nations, before the word luxury had been invented and quietly ruined, there was a thread. On the five-thousand-year origins of silk and the memory that...

Die Architektur der Stille

There is a quality of silence that belongs only to rooms where nothing is trying too hard. On how Japanese ceremonial silk carries that quality — the weight of occasion,...

Die Architektur der Stille

There is a quality of silence that belongs only to rooms where nothing is trying too hard. On how Japanese ceremonial silk carries that quality — the weight of occasion,...

Blütenwirbel

Hana-fubuki — flower snowstorm — is the Japanese word for the moment when cherry blossoms fall all at once. An essay on mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of impermanence,...

Blütenwirbel

Hana-fubuki — flower snowstorm — is the Japanese word for the moment when cherry blossoms fall all at once. An essay on mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of impermanence,...

The Chromatic Harvest – Pflanzenfärbung

What a European eye notices first in Japanese ceremonial silk is the colour. An indigo that is not quite navy, not quite violet. A gold that has aged away from...

The Chromatic Harvest – Pflanzenfärbung

What a European eye notices first in Japanese ceremonial silk is the colour. An indigo that is not quite navy, not quite violet. A gold that has aged away from...

KOYOMI — Die 72 Mikro-Jahreszeiten

The traditional Japanese calendar did not divide the year into four seasons. It divided it into 72: micro-seasons of roughly five days each, each named for a specific natural event....

KOYOMI — Die 72 Mikro-Jahreszeiten

The traditional Japanese calendar did not divide the year into four seasons. It divided it into 72: micro-seasons of roughly five days each, each named for a specific natural event....