Key(Japanese-slow-life)words
Keywords: life, slow life, LOHAS, organic, natural, huts in the forest, wooden furniture (with discreet Apple computers), simplicity, sleep, wabi sabi, patina, hanging bare lightbulbs, the avoidance of ostentation, post-materialism, eco-friendly, baking bread, making your own clothes, having babies, Scandinavian coffee pots, plants, large-format photography, subtly faded, delicate colours, old American signs, Little-House-on-the-Prairie puritan style, gentleness, Okinawa, pleasantness, bathing, rustic food, holistic herbal medicine, French peasant produce, artisans, older Asian lifestyles from other Asian countries, female friendship, Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows”, idealism, toddlers, quality coffee and tea, healthy green vegetables, cooking, sewing and beadwork, affection for the very old, tender-mindedness, urban longing for the rural, traditional Japanese values, leisure, relaxation, refinement, fertility, quality of life.
via things magazine, from Design Observer: In Praise of Slow Design