A
Ackerman, Diane, 59
acoustical perfume, 95
acoustic ecology, 94
ah-ness, 10
Alabama Stitch Book, 55
Alabama Studio Style, 55
American Craftsman movement, 26
The American Woman’s Home, or, Principles of Domestic Science, 68
Amish, 37
annica, 8
appliances, and noise, 96
architectural design, 25–26
Art & Architecture magazine, 32
asymmetry, 17
B
Baker furniture, 30
Baker, Guy, 110
Baker, Kermit, 147
baking soda, 67
Baraff, Alvin, 74
Bartlett, Christy, 45
Bauhaus, 25
beauty
and Buddhism, 19
natural beauty, 48
and performance, 136
and simplicity, 88
and utility, 82
ways of seeing, 50
Beecher, Catherine E, 68
Berke, Deborah, 128
the bloom of time, 8
Borax, 67
Buddhism. see also Zen Buddhism
and beauty, 19
Buddha nature, 19
datsuzoku, 17
and happiness, 68
law of annica, 8
and meaning of tea, 9
and sacred space, 73
C
Caldicott, Helen, 39
California wabi, 32
candles, 131
Carter, Brian, 128
caulking, 104
chabana, 60
Cha Cha Paulette, 65
chado, 18
Chanin, Natalie “Alabama”, 55
Chanoyu, 18
Chanoyu Ichieshu, 66
Cherokee prayer, 90
Chojiro, 141
Church of Craft, 52
Clark, Guy, 142
clay plaster, 62
cleanliness
cleaning agents, 67
cultivating, 65–69
and respect, 66
as wabi-sabi, 65
Clements, Melissa, 100
clotheslines, 39
club soda, 67
clutter, 79–84
collages, 58
Colonial Revival movement, 54
color
artists’ views of, 31
and clutter, 87
and food, 46
natural, 48
and spaciousness, 87
conspicuous consumption, 145
consumption, conspicuous, 145
Cook, Dan, 144
cork, 100–101
craft
cultivating, 53–63
current interest in, 54
handmade goods, 123
history of, 53–54
Craft Yarn Council, 54
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 83
cult of austerity, 136
D
Dalai Lama, 65
Danish modern, 27
datsuzoku, 17
Davis, Joan M., 56
decoration, 87
delight, cultivating, 59
de Wolfe, Elsie, 66
Dogen-zenji, 19
Dona, Claudia, 79
doors, and sound, 104
downsizing, 150
Drake, Willie, 113
E
Eames, Charles and Ray, 27, 32–33
education, essence of, 4
Elgin, Duane, 147
epicurean listening, 98
Esai, 15
F
fiber arts, 56–57
Field, Sabra, 39
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 137
flea markets
Indiana, 110
shopping in, 107–109
Folk Craft Museum, 50
food art, 46
Franklin, Denise, 148–149
Fraser, Steven, 145
Frederick, Christine, 68
freedom from worldly attachments, 17
Free Tea Party, 34
fukinsei, 17
Fuller, Buckminster, 112
G
garden wall, 63
garnishes, 66
Gibran, Kahlil, 134
Girard, Alexander, 54
the good life, 148–149
Gordon, Elizabeth, 28, 30, 46, 48, 136
grace, 80
Gregg, Richard, 85
guiding lights, 17
H
hade, 10
Hamada, Shoji, 54
Hampton, Mark, 126
handmade goods, 123
Hanh, Thich Nhat, 36
harmony, 20
Hearn, Lafcadio, 6
Hempton, Gordon, 93
Hepburn, Katherine, 10
herbal vinegar, 58
Hewitt, Emma, 27
Hideyoshi, Toyotomi, 88
Hodgetts, Craig, 32
Hogg, Min, 106
home comforts, 136
hospitality
cultivating, 135–141
list of priorities, 140
House Beautiful, 27, 28, 30, 46, 136
Household Engineering: Scientific Management of the Home, 69
housekeeping, 65–69
Howard, Buck, 147
Hyde, Lewis, 28
hydrogen peroxide, 67
I
ichigo, ichie, 21
ikebana, 60
iki, 10
imperfection
cultivating, 127–133
in nature, 62
impermanence, 8
Indiana, 110
indoor rock gardens, 58
insulation, 105
J
Jacobsen, Arne, 27
jaku, 20
Jannoff, Callie, 52
Japanese Craft Society, 54
Japanese Way of Tea. see Way of Tea
Japan Folk Craft Museum, 54
Jean-Charles, 62
Jill Nokes’s garden wall, 63
jimi, 10
Jones, Norah, 10
Joy-Z, 10
K
Kalman, Tibor, 32
kanso, 17
Kapleau, Philip, 41
Kariyazaki, Shogo, 60
Kawai, Kanjiro, 54
kei, 20
Keller, Helen, 130
Kevinizing, 29
Kichibei, 13
King Ludd, 42
kirakirashii, 10
kirei, 10
knickknacks, rotation of, 87
Knoll furniture, 28
koko, 17
Koren, Leonard, 4
Kyoichi, Kazue, 7
L
Lady Gaga, 10
Lambeth, Erwin, 30
Lambeth, Kay, 30
landscaping, for noise abatement, 105
Lao-tzu, 86
laundry drying, 39
The Laws of Simplicity, 43
Leach, Bernard, 54
Le Marche aux Puces, 110
lemon juice, 67
Liebes, Dorothy, 54
Ligon, Linda, 56
Linda, 80–81
listening, epicurean, 98
Little Audrey’s Story, 93
lotus position, 71
love, 142
Lubovich, Wendy, 108
Luddites, 42
M
machines, 42–43
Maeda, John, 43
Makiguchi, Tsunesaburo, 4
makoto no hinjin, 11
Mann, Henry Yorke, 148
manual labor, 41
matcha, 18
materialism, 145
Ma, theories of, 129
Matt, 62
mechanical systems, 105
mentsu, 16
Miller, Herman, 27
Milne, A. A., 108
mix and match, 108
miyabi, 10
Mogensen, Borge, 27
money, 142
Moore’s Law, 38
Moore, Thomas, 94
Morgenstern, Julie, 82
Morris, William, 12, 25, 26, 49
Museum of International Folk Art, 54
N
NaDeau, Kate, 3–4
nagarie, 60
nanboroku, 20
National Association of Home Builders, 74
National Association of Professional Organizers, 83
National Sleep Foundation, 74
natsukashii furusato, 10
natural beauty, 48
Natural Home magazine, 3
naturalness, 17
natural order, 144
Nearing, Scott and Helen, 3
epicurean listening, 98
good noise, 95
as health hazard, 92
historic control measures, 92
mitigation of, 95–100, 103–105
sound quality, 94
Nokes, Jill, 63
non-arrangement, 60
non-consumers, 146
Not So Big House, 76
O
O’Rourke, P. J., 136
Obama, Barack, 10
olive oil, 67
omogashi, 139
omoshiroi, 10
onioke, 16
P
Parker, Dorothy, 78
Pawson, John, 127
peace, 133
Perl, Jed, 31
Petrini, Carlo, 31
Pieter, 77
plaster, 62
Plato, 94
plumbing, 105
Pollak, Jerrold, 82
pollution, 112
Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, 108
possessions, 79–82
Powers, Meghan and Aaron, 112
pretty, shades of, 10
principles of slow design, 30
Project Laundry List, 39
public art, 63
purity, 20
Q
Quakers, quotation from, 93
Queen Elizabeth, 10
Quietude, 148–149
R
Rachel, 72
Raku, 18
reclaimed wood, 119
refrigerators, 96
The Remembrance of Things Past, 100
Remich, Norman, 95
respect, 20
and beauty, 88
and imperfection, 128
on meaning of Tea, 9
merchandise line, 141
principles of tea, 20–21
rule about seasons, 139
rules of tea, 23
simplicity, 138
on surrender, 20
Rochberg-Halton, Eugene, 83
rock gardens, indoor, 58
Roszak, Theodore, 42
rotation of knickknacks, 87
S
sabasu, 114
sabi
cultivating, 107–119
sacred space, 73
salt, 67
Santayana, George, 92
Schafer, R. Murray, 94
scrolls, 72
seasons, 139
secondhand savvy, 109
seeing
beauty, 50
seeing differently, 51
sei, 20
seijaku, 17
Self Storage Association, 82
Sengai, 144
serenity, artificial, 114
Seymour, Martin, 30
Shakers
and sabi style, 28
style, 25
shaza kissa, 21
Shigaraki, 6
Shintoism, 122
shizen, 17
shoin, 15
Shuko, Murata, 16
Shumacher, 30
Shunryu Suzuki, 72
silence
Cherokee prayer, 90
cultivating, 91–105
Gandhi quote, 98
Thoreau, Henry David, 91
value of, 102
Zen rule of, 17
Simmel, Georg, 82
Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska, 147
simple profundity, 17
simplicity
cultivation of, 143–153
downsizing, 150
Quietude, 148–149
trend toward, 147
Zen rule of, 17
Simplicity Consortium, 43
sitting Zen, 71
slowness
and the Amish, 37
cultivating, 37–43
enjoyment of, 37–38
Slow Cities, 31
Slow Food, 31
Slow Planet, 31
Smith, Adam, 145
Smith, Kiki, 123
solitude
cultivating, 71–77
space for, 73
Thoreau, Henry David, 91
soul
cultivating, 121–125
old soul, 113
The Soul of a Tree, 29
sound. see noise
soundproofing, 103–105
soundwalks, 94–95
space
cultivating, 79–89
sacred space, 73
thinking space, 74
Spadafora, Joe “Guisepi”, 34
Stefanie, 123
Stewart, Martha, 127
Stewart, William H., 92
Stone Soup Farm, 3
Strauss, Carolyn F., 31
stuff, excess of, 79–84, 144–145, 147
surrender, 20
Susanka, Sarah, 76
Suzuki, Daisetz T., 11
Suzuki, Shunryu, 70
T
tea
and cleanliness, 66
and hospitality, 21
principles of, 20–21
rules of, 23
virtues of, 22
tea ceremony
described, 20
function and aesthetic, 82
and seasons, 139
tea flowers, 60
tea masters, 15–16
Bartlett, Christy, 45
Kanzaki, Shiho, 6
Rikyu, Sen no. see Rikyu, Sen no
Shuko, Murata, 16
Soshitsu, Sen, XV, 72
Spadafora, Joe “Guisepi”, 34
teachings of, 66
“The Value of Voluntary Simplicity”, 85
thinking space, 74
Thompson, Jim, 54
Thoreau, Henry David, 74, 91, 94
The Three Pillars of Zen, 41
Tober, Barbara, 74
Tokyo, 5
toriawase, 139
tranquility, 20
treasure alcove, 51
U
Urasenke Center, 21
Urbanska, Wanda, 147
V
van der Rohe, Mies, 26
Veblen, Thorstein, 145
vinegar
as cleaning agent, 67
herbal, 58
virtues of tea, 22
vision
changing, 51
cultivating, 45–49
how to see, 50
Voluntary Simplicity, 147
W
wa, 20
wabi
California, 32
wabibito, 11
wabichado, 18
Wabicha no Keifu, 7
wabigukoro, 45
wabi-sabi
as appreciation of poverty, 11
authentic, 12
and cleanliness, 65–69
crafts, 58
cultivating, 107–119
defined, 4
flowers, 60–61
influence of, 25–36
in Japan, 5–6
palette of colors, 12
in the real world, 152–153
roots of, 9–23
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, 4
wabisuki, 65
Wanaselja, Karl, 110
Ward, Eliza, 93
washers and dryers, 97
washing dishes, 38
Way of Tea, 4
way of tea, 18
The Wealth of Nations, 145
Wegner, Hans, 27
Weil, Simone, 80
western shibuimono, 27
White, Betty, 10
Whitman, Walt, 83
Wilde, Oscar, 44
windows, and sound, 104
The Winter Days, 150
wood, reclaimed, 119
worldly attachments, 17
World of Interiors, 106
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 25, 84, 127
Y
Yankelovich, Daniel, 83
yo-no-bi, 82
yugen, 17
Z
zazen, 71
and manual labor, 41
seven ruling principles, 17
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, 72
Zenrin, 10