“Fall seven times, rise eight…” 

In a quiet gesture of balance and imperfection, Olivier Polmanss offers the KINTSUGI「木」Vase — a sculptural meditation on fragility, resilience, and the passage of time. Handcrafted in Japan, each vessel is wholly unique, its fractures mended with real gold leaf using the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi. The gilded seams do not conceal damage; they reveal it — ennobling breakage as memory, as transformation.

Limited to an edition of only ten, each piece is numbered, signed, and never repeated. The base, gently rounded, allows the form to subtly sway — evoking the Daruma doll, the Japanese talisman of perseverance. “Fall seven times, rise eight”: this age-old proverb is not simply inspiration, but the spirit embedded in the object’s very motion.

These vases are not static containers; they are vessels of narrative. They belong not to a shelf but to a moment — of upheaval, of repair, of rebirth. Whether acquired as art, heirloom, or gesture, they mark the space between fracture and grace.