Kintsugi Vase / Design 2White Kintsugi Vase Small Seletti Created by Italian designer Marcantonio, this vase is designed in this stunning style of Japanese art known as Kintsugi. Kintsugi ('golden joinery'), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.