Here are some pictures i chose which I think can present the real feeling of wabi-wabi.

It is easy to see that the furnitures from those pictures have obvious flaws.

It is hard to understand that sentence.Here is a definition of "make do" I found in http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/make-do. Make do means to manage to live without things that you would like to have or with things of a worse quality than you would like.

It is so true. I think it is the same that every time my mom want me to tidy my bed, i just confused-the bed will be messy again this night so why i should waste my time to make a thing that eventually will be used looks good?

After reading the whole article, I still can not understand why the title is " BIRDS OF A FEATHER". I guess maybe is because the amazing Peacock Room?

Haha, it's really funny to see the article use dandyish and urbanity to describe Manet, a French painter. Because dandyish is describe a man unduly(means extremely) concerned with looking stylish and fashionable(Mac dictionary, 2016), and urbanity is word related to elegant to some extent. It looks like 2 different pace of words.

In fact, I am just a little curious about this Gallery at first, but after i have searched a plenty of images about it, I was soon astonished by the museum's classic and elegant style. It is completely different from the normal museum(always looks very luxuriant and feels like a church..). This museum is a great combination of Eastern and Western culture. Below are some pictures about the Freer Gallery.

Actually this situation not only exist in the art area, other career such as chef, dancer, dresser etc which are usually considered as women's work, the professors in these position which has been accepted by the public are always more men than the women. It is quite interesting and confusing. Here is an article about why chief always be a man.Hope you guys can enjoy it.

It is so sad that there are only very limited information related to the Tori Hinn on the Internet. But i still found some graphic design she did when she was studying i the RISD. Here is the one reminds me one of the principles of design, figure/ground. It is easy to see there is a word site hided behind the word PARA, which is a smart use of Negative Space.

Boris Bikes are the bikes that served for London public bicycle hire scheme, also called Santander Cycles. The name of Boris is come from Boris Johnson, who was the Mayor of London when the scheme was launched(cited in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santander_Cycles).

Actually lawn and turf have the same translation in Chinese, therefore, i google "what's the difference between lawn and turf"and found a interesting answer,"'turf' was rather short, weed free, rich green in color...well..'Lawn' meaning grass that most likely involves weeds somewhere in there in front and behind residential homes"(cited in http://www.lawnsite.com/threads/turf-vs-lawn.152128/, 2016), and i also found some pictures in Pinterest, i think turf is more looks like an artificial and perfect lawn.

It is really surprised to see that there is not so many information about Sam Marshall on the Internet, but i think a lot of his designs are quite good(Darling hurst, castle crag etc) and he do love to divided the space and lines to present the feeling of order. Below is one of his work that i thought is good.

I think hoopla is a game that throw some loops to circle the prizes, so i am quite can not understand the meaning here

I am not sure whether it is an Italian word, meaning "from".

Willamette Meteorite is an iron-nickel meteorite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Meteorite

Mathew Brady, a famous photographer who is best known for his scenes of Civil war.! Here is a very famous stamp which is based on his works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Brady#/media/File:Abraham_Lincoln_1869_Issue-90c.jpg