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SHELF LIFE Round shapes add a softness and interesting design shape to rooms and this circular shelf is perfect for a pretty display. Trailing indoor plants bring nature indoors as well as introducing texture. Just add accessories. All items NEXT HOME

Scottish designer Nick Ross has created a range of high-backed curvy seats for Danish brand +Halle which he hopes offer a respite from an overstimulating world. Called Proto, the collection of chairs, a sofa, a bench and a stool, are designed to give the sitter a chance of a quiet escape in environments such as the workplace along with public spaces such as hospitals and airports. ‘Hospitals are an interesting setting, or any space where you need that inner feeling of security,’ says the designer. ‘And perhaps bigger workspaces, where you want to speak to a selected few in a crowded space, using Proto to foster an intimacy that often gets lost today.’ A PLACE TO ESCAPE

WHAT’S NEW AT STUDIO MODA Scandinavian company Muuto is one of a number of new brands now offered by Studio Moda. Muuto’s range of products include furniture, lighting and homeware accessories - wellknown pieces include the Unfold pendant light and Dot coat hooks. One of its latest creations is the wooden Cover chair. Also new to Studio Moda are Italian lighting company Karboxx, antoni who do office furniture and ramery Ƃcoustics who make the world’s best selling «ods and office «hone booths. WORKING DAY Also thinking about the way we work is Poltrona Frau which has launched the Trust eÝecutive office system. Based on in-depth research into the evolution of our working lives, it takes into account how the way we work is changing with technology blurring the boundaries between office and home, and how relationshi«s within the work«lace are becoming less fiÝed with communication and relaxation becoming increasingly important. The Trust system aims to meet these different needs, its collection of desks, self-supporting walls and storage units able to be freely combined together, adapting to the working style of the user. Designed by Alberto Lievore, Jeannette Altherr, Dennis Park, the volumes and construction of the pieces are light and airy with soft, organic and tapered forms. Materials are leather, saddle-leather and wood for a smart and luxurious look. Satariano

New for S/S20 is the L’Odyssée collection of fabrics and wallpapers from Christian Lacroix Maison for Designers Guild. Inspired by the escapist feeling of yight and fantasy, it celebrates the wonder of adventure and includes «rinted, woven and embroidered fabrics in a variety of textures and colourways and highly detailed wall«a«ers, digitally «rinted on luÝurious, non‡woven and vinyl grounds. *ictured is Oiseau leur which comes as both a non‡ woven backed vinyl wallpaper and a jacquard weave fabric. Design House ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT HW

HAVE A HUG The new Charlotte armchair, designed by Henrik Pedersen, literally wraps you in a warm hug thanks to its winged design. But unlike similar chairs, this is a compact yet elegant piece of furniture, and perfect for adding an accent chair to your living room, or to create a cosy reading nook elsewhere. It’s available in a wide range of fabrics and colours. BoConcept

TOO MUCH STUFF? Committee has collaborated with Established & Sons to create new versions of their Suirky -ebab ƃoor lamps, this time with the aim of starting a debate about over-consumption. The lamps feature stacks of trinkets on a central pole, and said Committee’s Harry Richardson and Clare Page, ‘If we don’t declare honestly that humans love objects, fashion, novelty, beauty and visual pleasure then it seems unlikely to us that we will find sensible ways to fiZ our overconsumption. With the -ebab Lamps we wanted to show there is a joy in owning objects, as well as a cost. Each lamp is a small, visual poem on globalisation; impressive and yet simultaneously, “too much”’. Each one is a limited edition with only eight made per year.