Leonard Koren is a Northern California-based author who founded WET Magazine in 1976, an abstract periodical dedicated to the concept of gourmet bathing. After spending several years living and working in Japan, Koren wrote various works on aesthetics, including “Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers”, which helped bring the Japanese concept of ‘Wabi-Sabi’ into western aesthetic theory.