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Order has become a strange branch of the world of self help. “Order your house and be happy” is the unexpected motto with that the Japanese guru Marie Kondo presents in her books, true best-sellers all over the world. The Kondo triumphs with its book and his lectures where he promulgates faith in minimalism understood as the way to “order, organize and simplify your house and your life. This kind of new age philosophy comes to say that less things in the closet equals more quality of life and that the new lifestyle implies getting rid of everything that is not absolutely necessary for our fulfillment like people book and his lectures where he promulgates faith in minimalism Japanese guru Marie Kondo presents in her books, true bestsellers all over the world.

The book is full of delicious sentences such as “Minimalism is to make space for what matters most”, or “Increasingly If a new object enters your house, a similar one must leave.

More or less hollow phrases that show, once again, that self-help works are great encyclopedias of meaning common. Right now that the world of decorative trends seemed willing to definitively repudiate the minimalism cold theories of the Bauhaus Do you need to accumulate junk in the age of overproduction, exploitation of the planet and resources?

The question is whether we should also learn to live in environments with minimal decorative intervention, where lines simple of the architecture and the beauty of the landscape, of the garden or of the urban skyline are enough to satisfy our sensitivity. Houses modeled by light, four pieces of furniture, pleasant materials, Wi-Fi and little else. In the restaurant scene the vintage is still in full swing, flooding coffee shops in the middle world of lush visual landscapes crowded with things and exotic cultural references