Wabi-Sabi Lacquerware Stand

Double Happiness Lacquer Stand Time, Repaired — Then Reimagined This nearly century-old lacquerware piece began its life in traditional folk use, built on a solid wooden core and finished in deep red and black lacquer. Time did what it always does—it softened the surface, opened fine cracks, and revealed the quiet tension between wood and lacquer. Those cracks were not erased.They were carefully restored, while the natural imperfections of the wood were intentionally left visible. The result is a rare balance:aged lacquer fissures meeting raw wooden irregularities—a wabi-sabi dialogue that cannot be recreated.   How It Feels When you look closely, the surface holds two kinds of time. The lacquer carries its original color, darkened gently by decades.The wood beneath breathes through subtle undulations, reminding you that this object was once alive. Kevin intervened not to correct it, but to continue its story—adding a hand-applied “Double Happiness” motif and the phrase itself, no