Conran Classics

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Sir Terence Conran selected 54 design classics of the 20th century, from the Eames Lounge to Ron Arad’s earworm bookcase, as the basis of a new collection that will be shown in two new exhibits opening this 10 September 2010 in London. An accompanying catalog, beautifully shot in black and white by Julian Broad, features members of the Conran family posing with the furniture.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Piss whiskey, cannabis catering, a cigarette-smoking machine and more in our weekly web survey

1. Gilpin Family Whiskey For this weekend’s gross-out conversation starter, go no further than researcher and diabetic James Gilpin’s extreme DIY project. Pointing out the ways we can “harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance,” he recently started purifying the naturally sugar-rich urine of diabetics to make “pisskey.” 2. A Night Club Map of Harlem Originally published in a 1932 issue …

Gilpin Family Whiskey

Piss whiskey, cannabis catering, a cigarette-smoking machine and more in our weekly web survey

For this weekend’s gross-out conversation starter, go no further than researcher and diabetic James Gilpin’s extreme DIY project. Pointing out the ways we can “harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance,” he recently started purifying the naturally sugar-rich urine of diabetics to make “pisskey.”