the beauty through the other senses

In Praise of Shadows
A) The design isn't all about how we see something, but how we feel, smell, and hear something that is important in experiencing design.
B) I have never earen anything in authentic lacquerware.
Lacquerware soup bowl
Theory of Decorative Art
In the essay Hand Work by Adolf Von Hilderbrand, he explains how hand made art works are worth more and more meaningful to everyone, rather than just having a machine produce art.
Hand made chair
Mass produced chair
These two readings both say that the beauty of an object isn't just by how if looks. It uses all the other senses as well.
Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro (1977). In Praise of Shadows. (T.J. Harper and E.G. Seidensticker, trans.) Sedgwich, ME: Leete's Island Books, Inc. (original work published in 1933)
Frank Isabelle (editor)(2000). The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European and American Writings 1750-1940. New York: Yale University Press.

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