I am very sentimental about the objects in my life. Not just my grandmother’s amethyst cocktail ring or my first childhood drawings, but also the electric pencil sharpener I inherited from my mom and ...

Imagine a beloved object: a cup, a plate or a bowl. Perhaps your favourite auntie owned it, or was it found in another country and shipped safely home? Now it is broken, fallen into a small handful of ...

One can buy Kintsugi kits online, or even make home-made versions with glue and gold paint.(Photo: Getty Images) The ancient Japanese concept of Kintsugi, repairing broken ceramics with gold and ...

I recently took a course in kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and highlighting the cracks with gold. The mended piece ends up being more beautiful and more valuable than ...

The 400-year-old art of kintsugi will have you knocking over your cups, on purpose Add as a preferred source on Google We sat down with a ceramist based in Kyoto, who tells us about the golden repair ...