In traditional Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-sabi is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.
Sometimes described as “imperfect, impermanence and incomplete beauty”, this concept helps us to accept time passing fast, to find beauty in imperfection, to value the simplicity and to chose materials closer to nature as wood.
This all affects the interior design: the impeccable perfection is replaced by people’s personality living the house, so that asymmetry and uneven shapes, organic materials, handcrafted products become become essential elements.
Nature and imperfection:
materials commited to a Wabi-Sabi aesthetics
Imperfect and changeable: this is why Nature is beautiful. The organic materials, such as wood, have grains and knots of unrepeatable beauty. The rough texture of wood with its teredo tunnels and indelible mark of time is intrinsically part of a Wabi-sabi aesthetics.
There is no literal translation of the term Wabi-Sabi, the aesthetics that loves imperfection. Originally translated with the words loneliness and melancholy, nowadays the first word concern to living life plainly and completely aligned with nature. The word Sabi focuses on the inescapability of the time passing by and on accepting peacefully the natural circle of life and its transience.
The Wabi-sabi aesthetics can be found in handcrafted products
made by antique wood, in which their innate “flaws”
make the space around special.
Telling stories of respect and uniqueness, the antique wood reclaimed from Venetian Briccole, from farmsted in the Dolomites can be considered Wabio-sabi.
MFDesign is committed for reclaiming Italian wood in order to discourage the heavy deforestation, to decrease the wastefulness and to respond consciously and responsibly to the sensitive topic of eco-sustainability. The antique wood comes from rural settlements, haylofts, wine barrels, farmhouses, but also from castles, boats, wharfs and venetian briccole (the oak pillars used for mooring boats).
MFDesign reclaims, restores and reuses wood to create certified products that are suitable with green architecture: floor, wall cladding, drop ceilings, roof truss. All of the are worked by hand, with artisan care and with non-toxic and organic products. The reclaimed wood is controlled with attention and cleaned in order to be used again as a noble material that has a story to tell.
Being fully aligned with the principles of environmental sustainability, all of the MFDesign products, included the one made by antique wood, are suitable for green architecture.
All the products are FSC and PEFC certified, Ackiwledging that wood comes from sustainably managed forests, the glues do not contain volatile organic substances (formaldehyde and pentachlorophenol). The waxes used to treat the board surfaces are completely natural with a distinctive scent: they are obtained from linseed oil, hempseed oil, propolis, sunflower seed oil, carnauba wax and beeswax.
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