Antique Large Blanket Chest

Antique blanket chest with beautiful remnants of the original color. The original hardware is intact. Used to store handwoven blankets from Sumatra. Circa 1950.

This blanket chest was hand made in the spirit of Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese philosophy that beauty can be found in imperfection and impermanence. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. A beauty of things unconventional. It is the opposite of vulgarity. The costs of achieving this kind of minimalism are seemingly inconsistent with its mission of aesthetic humility. This kind of luxury is for a select few: The Emperor of Japan had a Wabi garden. Wabi is for people who already have a lot.

Own an Andrianna Shamaris original.