Pinel & Pinel x La Forge Laguiole

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A culinary dream team, French brands La Forge Laguiole and Pinel & Pinel collaborated on a gorgeous steak knife, highlighted on Selectism.

Stephen Doyle’s Language Art

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Influenced by the power of words, designer Stephen Doyle created paper sculptures from real pieces of literature. In an interview with Felt & Wire, Doyle discusses his inspirations, materials and more.

Contraband

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An excerpt from her upcoming book “Contraband” (due out Fall 2010), T Magazine displayed artist Taryn Simon’s disturbing photos of items confiscated at New York’s JFK airport. The assortment spans dead animals to cow dung toothpaste, for a book that aims to reveal what is considered “threatening to economies, to personal safety and to a nation.”