Taylor Forrest Furniture

A fashion designer's primitive twist on '70s glam in a collection of leather chairs

After graduating from Parsons with a BFA in Fashion Design in 2010, designer Taylor Forrest saw furniture as a sort of experiment. Come November 2013, she will have been experimenting with designing chairs for a solid year, and the upshot of her dedication can be seen in a recently-released first collection of leather sling chairs and lounges inspired by the malleability of the material, a …

“Osmosi” by Emmanuel Babled

The designer teams up with Italian craftsmen for a pairing of marble and glass

Some products own the rare ability to combine magic and technology, craftsmanship and digitalization, uniqueness and industrial processesbut Emmanuel Babled‘s latest project, called “Osmosi,” incorporates all of that. Babled’s pre-production research has two distinct directions: product and edition. While the first holds truer to a traditional approach in the design world, the latter is definitely experimental and often encourages his clients to raise the bar, …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Banksy's water tank, Alessi in love, coffee on demand and more in our weekly look at the web

1. The Science of Champagne That effervescence that defines the most celebratory drink in alcohol’s repertoire happens to be one giant happy accident. As physicist Gerard Liger-Belair explains in his new book, “Uncorked: The Science of Champagne,” those hundreds of bubbles bursting per second are vehicles for flavor and scent. It was considered a product of poor wine-making, and Catholic monk Dom Pierre Pérignon was …