EMBRACING DECAY WITH
KINTUSGI REPAIR

“When creative director and stylist Liz Gardner was renovating Maison Bodega — her 1920s Minneapolis home and creative studio designed by the architect Ernest Kennedy — she ignored advice to pull out the damaged original tiles in the main bathroom. Instead she commissioned artist Jonathan Janssen to work kintsugi magic on the walls. “We were committed to allowing time to be made visible,” she says. “Instead of hiding every crack or intersection of materials, we embraced them, even highlighted them, following the principle of the palimpsest.”

Financial Times, 2025