My new summer reading list includes three books on tea~!
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (this one’s a reread)
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose (A girl in my ‘China and it’s Western Observers’ class did a paper based on the story in this book so I’m super interested in reading this one)
Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West by Beatrice Hohenegger (bought this one on a whim so lets see how it goes!)
I’m here but nothing
Yayoi Kusama began hallucinating spots atop the surfaces of her world at a young age. In these polka dots, at once simple and boundless, Kusama found a way to break from the self and look into infinity.
Smithsonian researcher Kjell Sandved spent 40+ yrs photographing nature on every continent. One day, hidden away on a dusty shelf inside an old cigar box, Sandved found a butterfly with a perfect letter ‘F’ on its wing. He wondered if he could find more letters in the wing patterns of other butterflies. So, for 24 years, he kept traveling, photographing butterflies and adding to the alphabet collection. In 1975 his completed collection was published in Smithsonian Magazine.
cool！
Retail Mall by SPARK architects
SPARK architects has recently designed Fuzhou’s most popular retail mall in China. The ‘Fuzhou Wusibei Thaihot Plaza’ is a 7-storey building that combines the shopping’s center interior, an adjacent plaza and the passing street.
Photography by Shu He
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum asked if design could design solve the word’s largest problems with their exhibit Design for the Other 90% four years ago. Cynthia E. Smith, the museum’s Curator of Socially Responsible Design, wanted to make the concept of design...
super easy！ very humor，art master’s iconic imagery!
wildandpeaceful
Flower children: the little cousins of the field and garden by Elizabeth Gordon (1910)
(via Archive.org)
