Backlink: GARDEN SILLUSTRATED South African designer-maker Shannon Clegg has called her extraordinary series of shaped floral forms Bouquet. Like a traditional bouquet, they are made entirely of plant material, but unlike their namesake, the flowers are skilfully moulded into an elegant vessel form, which allows them to stand alone without a vase to distract […]

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  Backlink: THE BL Chinese martial arts, also known as “wushu,” are arguably some of China’s most popular and successful cultural exports. Despite their widespread and enduring recognition over time, most people’s fundamental understanding of these practices in the West is limited. The development in America and Europe of the various Chinese martial arts has […]

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