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Wabi-Sabi Moments takes its name from the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi — the acceptance of transience and imperfection — and its visual sensibility from two people who never met: Iris Apfel, for her conviction that more is more when the more is yours, and Beatriz Milhazes, for proving that warm colors can think.

The site is set in Cormorant Garamond, drawn by Christian Thalmann after the sixteenth-century punches of Claude Garamond, with Raleway by Matt McInerney and Pablo Impallari carrying the small print. The palette runs from cream through espresso, with ochre, coral, and sage doing the talking. It runs on Squarespace, with a small amount of custom CSS for the things Squarespace doesn't natively do.

Photographs are mine unless noted otherwise. The beaded dividers and small flourishes were designed with Claude, Anthropic's AI, which turns out to be a patient collaborator on the kind of fiddly, small decisions a site like this is made of. Thanks to [name, if anyone] for the CSS hands, and to the friends whose questions, recommendations, and disagreements end up here in one form or another.

Written by Inga, in Seattle, since 2026.