The Silent Hour: A Kintsugi Experience at the POEMI Showroom

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Two ceramic plates repaired with gold using the Japanese technique Kintsugi

Between May and June, the POEMI showroom in Bucharest hosted “The Silent Hour,” an experience inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi, held as part of the BDF GO! program within the framework of Bucharest Design Festival. Over the course of several sessions, the showroom's Round Room transformed into a space of tranquility and presence, dedicated to a simple ritual: repairing what is broken.

Kintsugi, in Camera Rotunda

Kintsugi is the Japanese technique by which broken ceramic objects are restored with gold, and the crack becomes a story-telling detail rather than a flaw to be hidden. Inspired by the wabi-sabi philosophy, The Silent Hour was conceived as a moment of reconnection, in the spirit of “quiet luxury”: no phones, no rush, in an intimate space within the Rotunda Room of the POEMI showroom in Bucharest, with small sessions dedicated to a limited number of participants at a time.

Each session involved a cherished, broken object brought home whole again—either a personal item or a POEMI piece prepared specifically for this ritual. With the help of a complete Kintsugi set, participants had the time and tranquility to repair, with their own hands, something that seemed lost, rediscovering that a visible mark can become the most precious detail of an object.

It was not a demonstration, but an exercise in patience: the hands that glue, the gold that fills the crack, the silence that leaves room for thoughts. Each repaired piece left the showroom differently than it entered, not hiding its past, but carrying it further, visibly, as proof that beautiful things can also have a second life.

Thank you

We thank everyone who chose to spend a quiet hour with us in the showroom, rediscovering that imperfection can be viewed differently, not as a loss, but as part of the story. We also thank the Bucharest Design Festival team for the BDF GO! program, which brought new people from the city's design community to our doorstep.

For those who want to continue this ritual at home, The Kintsugi Set it is available in our store and can transform any broken piece into an object with a new story.

Event held as part of Bucharest Design Festival 2026.