User:AyumiDate/sandbox

Ayumi Date is an American and international architect, interior/environmental designer, lecturer and a wabi sabi warrior*. Cofounder of the New York office of Point Design, an award winning international retail design firm as well her own Manhattan residential design atelier, Studio 5R; her work has been published and recognized globally. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science from the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. A 2016 transplant to Santa Fe, she was born and raised in New York to expatriate parents; she maintains dual citizenship with US and Japan.


 * Wabi Sabi, the Japanese philosophy for a perfectly imperfect life, accepts anomalies and life’s realities. Being mindful of aesthetics and the pristine, the appreciation of the authentic rather than the perfect becomes our conscious way of making life decisions, how we navigate through our environments and in turn, enabling us to experience each other with beauty and grace.