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Clay and architecture

a time when most of us are going to bed or, at least, thinking about it. Not Betty Chung. The 34-year-old is rolling up her sleeves and heading to the purpose-built studio underneath her Remuera house to beat a batch of clay into submission. Then she’ll mould it into items from her range of sculptural, textured

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