The Japanese home has less furniture, fewer objects, and more open space than its Western counterpart. This is not minimalism for its own sake. It is ma — the deliberate creation of space that allows everything else to breathe.

Going Deeper

Explore this concept further in The Beauty of Ma by Takeshi Mori.

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