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The Wabi-Sabi Mirror&Table by Eny Lee Parker

Eny Lee Parker is a furniture graduate student at Savannah College of Art and Design and her latest work, The Wabi-Sabi Mirror&Table, combines two complementary objects into one design. On their own, the objects are imperfect and can’t function – the mirror wouldn’t stand up without the table and the spherical table would be unstable without the mirror.

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Together, they can be united in their imperfections, which is how the design got its name – the Japanese theory of wabi sabi is finding beauty in imperfection. The piece’s flaws are what makes them stronger once together.

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Photos by Katie McGee.

Caroline Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Design Milk. She has a BFA in photography from SCAD and can usually be found searching for vintage wares, doing New York Times crossword puzzles in pen, or reworking playlists on Spotify.