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1: Kartell Piuma chair
Three years in the making, the Piuma armchair project by Piero Lissoni for Kartell blends a complex thermoplastic polymer with carbon to create a material that's light yet extremely rigid. Using a sophisticated injection-moulding technology, the chair is barely two millimetres at its thickest and weighs just 2.2kg. £293 kartell.com
2: Offsize collection by Prooff
As shared and flexible working spaces and routines bed themselves into office culture, the traditional boardroom has started to feel a little redundant. Step forward Prooff and its forward-thinking collection of office furniture, created to encourage those impromptu meetings and surprising encounters that can yield greater results than a scheduled round-table discussion. Each Offsize item can be used for sitting, standing or reclining, and the upholstered wooden frame is wrapped in the very finest Kvadrat fabrics. €929 prooff.com
3: Plumen Willow
Vintage bulbs for the 21st century, Plumen's WattNott E27 dimmable LED filament has an estimated lifetime of 25,000 hours and uses 80 per cent less energy than the traditional incandescent bulbs it draws inspiration from. £24.95 plumen.com
4: Native Union PR/01
Designed in collaboration with French hi-fi pioneers La Boite concept, the PR/01 – in solid wood with solid brass detailing – embraces traditional carpentry methods and audio, so you get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, punchy, refined sound quality and a refreshingly future-proof approach to design in the form of a concealed drawer that houses USB-A and -C ports and a wireless charging pad. £699 conranshop.co.uk
5: Unto This Last L Desk
Unto This Last creates beautiful things from its east London studio using Birch plywood and a CNC machine. It holds minimal stock to reduce transportation warehouse costs and make everything to order – including this L Desk for WIRED, that comes in left/right orientation, a choice of widths and depths, cable management cubby-holes and lino-top finishes in a choice of 21 colours. From £420 untothislast.co.uk
Vitra Stool-Tool
Konstantin Grcic designed this simple yet practical 5.5kg lump of polypropylene as a tool to unlock the potential of your room’s tightest corners. As a result, it can be used as a stool, step, side-table, or a combination of all three and can be stacked 10-high and easily stashed out the way when not required. €235 vitra.com
Lindberg MøF titanium sunglasses
Deceptively simple, potentially game-changing eyewear collection from Lindberg that allows wearers to swap lenses depending on their style and situation. Retaining the ultra-light, no screws, no soldering hinges that have made the brand famous, they've introduced a unique inner-rim lens system that simply snaps in and out so you can adapt the MøF frame from computer work to reading classes, outdoor activities or just lounging in the sun. £poa lindberg.com
Mui digital assistant
Mui looks like a polished plank of wood, but a quick swipe of your finger on the capacitive surface reveals a complete suite of customisable smart home and IoT controls, with push notifications and information hidden beneath the wood’s translucent veneer. Mui’s pixel-style LED display can give you control over your home’s heating and lighting, display text messages and provide a host of updates including diary and weather, but just like the finest of real-world non-digital assistants, it disappears when you don’t need its services. mui.jp
Carl Friedrick Walton 12-inch MacBook sleeve
Handmade in Italy using the finest naturally tanned leather, this elegant, minimal 12-inch MacBook sleeve is available in black (shown), chocolate, fango-brown and cognac. £95 carlfriedrik.com
Parachute by Yusuke Watanabe
As unlikely as it sounds, this wonderfully abstract coat rack was inspired by, and named after, Coldplay’s debut album. No, really. While listening to the album, Japanese designer Yusuke Watanabe looked up the word Parachute and discovered its comes from a combination of the Italian, “parare” (to protect) and the French, “chute” (to fall). He then set about trying to design products that protect against falling, and the result is this stylish all-metal series of flip-out hooks that prevent your stuff from, well, falling. $poa wdtoyko.com
Post Lamp Family by Earnest Studio
A hugely versatile series of single bulb LED lamps from Rotterdam-based designers Earnest Studio. Each light fitting can be attached using powerful magnets to one of the four available cylindrical steel bases to create a wall, floor, table or ceiling light. You can add more than one LED light to each base for increased illumination, while the free-form magnetic design – with myriad positions and angles to play with – means your lamp never needs look the same way twice. €poa earnestly.org
Miniforms Bardino desk
Designed by Paolo Cappello for Italian furniture brand Miniforms, this slender writing desk boasts an entertaining secret. Hidden within its solid wooden frame you’ll find two Bluetooth speakers, a 3.5mm headphone jack and volume control. Combined they offer the ideal solution for anyone who loves to listen to music while they work but loathes clutter. Available in either a white or black lacquered finish with solid turned beechwood legs. £3,300 gomodern.co.uk
Kartell Bio Chair
Synonymous with plastic innovation, Kartell was, for instance, the first brand to use polycarbonate to produce entirely transparent furniture. But in recent years, as the need for sustainable non-petroleum-based materials has increased, the company has switched focus towards plant-based alternatives. And the result? Bio Chair, designed by Antonio Citterio, is made using BIODURA, a sustainable and biodegradable material that, despite its organic credentials, can be injection molded without compromising on the build quality or finish, and points to a bright, green future far removed from the brand’s petrochemically dependent origins. £tbc kartell.com
Artemide Gople Lamp
Each mouth-blown cylindrical glass body is unique and combines an ancient Venetian technique with vacuum metallisation to add silver or copper. But the real story here is use of RWB – red, white and blue – light technology that, aside from being able to create functional white light for work and preparation zones, also helps your house plants flourish. £tbc artemide.com
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
