In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired with a seam of lacquer and precious metal. Trust the Japanese to ...
Kintsugi typically refers to the art of using lacquer to repair broken pottery pieces, but Freitas chose to apply the technique to common pieces of furniture, such as chairs, desks and ladders.
Translating to “golden repair,” Kintsugi involves repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with gold, silver or platinum. Rather than concealing fractures, Kintsugi celebrates them ...
Dozens of broken pieces of pottery dating between 2,000 and 3,000 years old have been unearthed on a windswept island on the Great Barrier Reef – the oldest pottery ever discovered in Australia.
It was first discovered by builders back in 2022 during a development on untouched land with unearthed broken pottery and patterned bricks being discovered too. This discovery comes after a ...