Decorate your home with the Wabi-Sabi style, minimalism can also be beautiful!

With the rapid development of society, people's quality of life has gradually improved, and their expectations for modern home living have also continued to rise. In today's fast-paced lives, people often hope to find complete relaxation at home. The demand for clean, simple, elegant and warm decoration has become a necessity for modern young people. As the popularity of modern and Nordic decoration styles fades, the term "wabi-sabi" is increasingly appearing in people's minds. What exactly is the "wabi-sabi" style? 

The term "wabi-sabi" originates from the Japanese tea ceremony and Zen culture. At the end of the Muromachi period, social unrest and fear gripped the Japanese people. Buddhism, combined with Zen culture, deeply rooted the Japanese people, and the concepts of impermanence and the end of the world became mainstream. Zen culture influenced every aspect of Japanese society, art, and culture, resulting in a completely Zen-like aesthetic consciousness during the Muromachi period, with wabi-sabi at its core becoming the dominant aesthetic.

Sen no Rikyu was a renowned Japanese tea master, and the aesthetic of wabi-sabi originated from his work. At the end of the Muromachi period, he promoted wabi-cha, a tea ceremony that embodies the pursuit of simplicity. He transformed the luxurious shoin-style teahouse into a thatched hermitage-style teahouse, where all components retain the natural, tranquil colors of the materials used, and the teaware often retains its irregular, primitive, and unadorned quality. In the dimly lit teahouse, sipping tea from an uneven, rough tea bowl, the tea connoisseur, immersed in the tranquility, enters a state of tranquility, a sense of nothingness, and an indescribable feeling wells up within. Wabi-cha combines the spirit of Zen with the tea ceremony, eschewing external splendor to embrace a spiritual art form that pursues solitude or tranquility. 

In modern home living, the wabi-sabi style creates an atmosphere of tranquility and elegance by simplifying the complex and using simple, rustic decorative materials. The following describes these decorative materials from five perspectives: texture, form, color, feel, and texture.

quality

shape

Form refers to shape. Wabi-sabi interior design emphasizes simple, natural lines. To soften the scattered lines and surfaces, creating a softer, purer visual impression, curved surfaces are used extensively. Interfaces are reorganized and superimposed with curved surfaces at various angles to create graceful curves. For example, the curved ceiling and arched doors on the walls create a smooth visual effect, unlike the rigid transitions of straight lines in conventional design. This allows the Wabi-sabi style to create a more graceful visual image.

color

Color: Natural tones dominate the space, eliminating strong contrasting colors. The essence of wabi-sabi lies in pure hues, such as the natural wood color of OSB boards. Wabi-sabi also often preserves the colors conveyed by objects over time, whether in black, light brown, dark brown, or varying shades of gray. These seemingly withered colors convey a sense of tranquility and peace, bringing peace of mind.

feel

The tactile feel of materials. Decorative materials, due to their varying physical characteristics, develop varying surface textures. Tactile texture refers to the sensory experience of a material's surface, whether smooth or rough, hard or soft, cool or warm, through touch. Each material possesses its own unique texture and aesthetic. By subtending the expressiveness of spatial color and cleverly utilizing natural light, the perception of this texture can be enhanced, creating a deeper impact on the spatial atmosphere and heightening both visual and psychological perceptions. The "wabi-sabi" style typically features a retro, soft touch, such as Qiannianzhou's newly developed fine linen and skin-feel collections. This tactile feel is generally a natural property of the material itself, while industrialized products typically achieve this through specialized post-processing of the surface.

lines

The Wabi-Sabi style often incorporates the natural textures of materials, such as wood patterns and the rough, irregular grain of bark, into decorative objects. It also incorporates "natural" textures produced industrially through processes like printing and weaving. The surfaces of these decorative objects, weathered by time and bearing the marks of time, embody a sense of the passage of time, a state of selflessness, and a sense of tranquility and closeness to nature, creating a home experience that is both peaceful and serene.

Qiannianzhou Group creates panel products through five aspects: quality, shape, color, feel, and pattern, and insists on being at the forefront of fashion. Qiannianzhou PET platinum crystal panels and UV decorative panel series products provide more choices for the implementation of the "Wabi-Sabi" style in terms of patterns, surface textures, etc., creating a living environment away from the hustle and bustle of the city. At the same time, we will also draw on the philosophical concepts contained in the "Wabi-Sabi" aesthetics to provide more possibilities for product development.