Gen Saratani’s design studio in Long Island City, New York is small, neat, warm. A fan hums in the corner. The light is soft. Decorations are sparse — a gold-lacquered zebra print here, a decorative ...

Kintsugi 金継ぎ is known as the Japanese art of putting broken things back together, like broken pottery, using materials mixed with powdered gold and other elements. Instead of hiding damage, this ...

When Claire Pickard broke her grandmother's porcelain swan, she couldn't bear to throw it away. "It was the only connection to gran I have, other than photos," she says. But Claire also didn't take it ...

The “golden repair” mindset encourages us to see failure as a chance to grow—a lesson we can apply to our own lives. Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art form that offers a profound metaphor for ...

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley recently revealed that he’d embraced the Japanese art of kintsugi in coaching a team that few predicted would make the AFL Grand Final at the start of the year. Even ...