Axel Vervoordt: Wabi Inspirations

Axel Vervoordt: Wabi Inspirations is an interior design book devoted to wabi, the Japanese idea that draws its beauty from simplicity, authenticity and imperfection. The cover sets the tone: a vast lime-toned plaster wall, a low steel fireplace burning against raw concrete, a single stone hearth slab and a slipcovered armchair in soft pale linen, all beneath dark exposed beams. Warm ochre and grey lettering completes a quietly restrained composition.

Inside, Axel Vervoordt reveals interiors shaped by his personal reading of wabi: elegance in natural materials, nobility without sophistication, timelessness rooted in tradition. He shows how to create calm, peaceful spaces where beauty is distilled to its purest form, while photographs by Laziz Hamani plunge the reader into the singular atmosphere of these rooms.

A large-format volume that belongs on a coffee table, a console in the living room or stacked with other design books on open shelving. Its muted, earthy cover sits naturally in wabi-sabi, japandi and minimalist interiors, and makes a considered gift for architects, decorators and lovers of quiet spaces.

• Author: Axel Vervoordt
• Photography: Laziz Hamani
• Publisher: Flammarion
• Dimensions: 22.2 × 27.8 cm
• Weight: 1.500 kg
• Brand: Chulo
• Tags: Interior design
• GTIN: TH1085