urged Japanese craftsmen to come up with a more pleasing method of repair. In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired ...

W alk through the glowing, oak-lined dining room at Kuro and seams of gold snake their way beneath your feet, filling the cracks in the floor. It’s a nod to the Japanese art of ...