Coalesse brought some California sunshine to rain-soaked Milan as a backdrop to its range of work-life furniture showing at iSalone, which is blurring the boundaries between home and office. I spoke to Toan Nguyen and Scott Wilson about their designs. Toan Nguyen told me about his Lagunitas range and particularly the sofa above: “The brief was for a product that combined lounging and working. I wanted to create something which gave the user a lot of possibilities to work in a new way between the home and the office. People often don’t work at desks anymore – they don’t work in a fixed place, but at the same time they still need to write, to work on a laptop, lean forward sometimes and to lean back sometimes

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British-Japanese designer Reiko Kaneko pushes the boundaries when it comes to fine bone china. Gone away are traditional figurines or your grandmother’s not-so-exciting tea set, and replaced with beautiful, modern designs, oftentimes inspired by her Japanese heritage. Now back to that tea set… The Drip Tease collection might be a classic looking tea set in form, but this one has a bit of a contemporary twist. Drip Tease teapot in gold Each piece in the set comes complete with playful drips of “tea” represented in precious gold and platinum

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Drip Tease Collection by Reiko Kaneko

A-Cute , designed by London design firm AndViceVersa , is a set that includes two chairs and a table that join together to form a sculptural, multi-faceted shape when not in use. Made from laser cut metal sheets that are hand folded based on digital prototyping, and then welded into the geometric solid of the finished product. The design is meant to push the boundaries of it being just a table when, in fact, it’s also a work of art. The outer artistic form conceals the chairs within its structure while maintaining the geometric shell

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Sculptural Chairs Disappear Into Geometric Table

The sculptural Magistral Cabinet created by New York-based artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz continues the artist’s investigation into the boundaries between functionality and symbolism walking the fine line between art and design. The cabinet is covered with a protective layer of 80,000 bamboo skewers. A set of concealed doors slide open to reveal its inner mechanisms and each one of its many compartments. The labor-intensive process of placing the bamboo skewers required a team of 12 woodworkers and a total of six weeks to individually hammer each skewer into the previously carved wooden structure.

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Magistral Cabinet by Sebastian Errazuriz