White / 100 Whites

"White" is not a book about colors. It is an exploration of essence — Kenya Hara's meditation on white as the origin of Japanese aesthetics, a philosophy of simplicity and profound restraint.

Its companion volume, "100 Whites," extends this inquiry through one hundred specific examples: snow, rice, wax. As art director for Muji, Hara examines what these whites mean in the process of design — not merely as visual phenomena, but as states of mind.

Two volumes. Two ways into the same quiet obsession. Each sold separately.

Part of our Japanese Minimalism collection.