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Stockholm 2014: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a set of ceiling-mounted office dividers for Swedish brand Offecct (+ slideshow).

Luca Nichetto designed the Notes room dividers for Offecct Lab, a branch of the brand that develops sustainable products and furniture for the workplace.

Nichetto took influence from washing hung above the narrow alleyways in his home town of Venice when designing the screens.

“When kids play football on the street, the clothes hanging over the lines muffle the sound of the bouncing football and screaming kids,” he explained. “So I used that as inspiration and tried to transfer it in to an industrial product.”

Each screen is constructed from two upholstered boards with rounded corners that sandwich a layer of recycled felt.

The felt helps to absorb noise from both sides of the division, but the pieces still allows a visual link between the spaces they separate at seated eye level.

“My brief from Offecct was to create a new kind of sound panel that didn’t have to be fixed on the wall but more like a free standing object,” said Nichetto. “At the same time it should work with recyclable felt made of waste from the upholstery production.”

The panels mount on rails so they can be slid side-to-side to create different arrangements. The collection includes five shapes, which can be covered in a selection of fabrics.

Offecct will present the range at this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair, which starts today as part of Stockholm Design Week.

The brand is also launching a modular table system with plug sockets within the structure, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

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Stockholm 2014: all of the solid wood furniture in Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune‘s collection for Japanese brand Matsuso T has five sides (+ slideshow).

Rounded pentagons feature in all of the designs from Claesson Koivisto Rune‘s Five range for Matsuso T, a new brand curated by Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto.

“We live in a world of five elements that we experience through our five senses,” said the studio’s cofounder Mårten Claesson. “Five is gently odd. Five is not too many. Five is beautiful.”

The maple wood collection includes an armchair, a stool, dining and coffee tables, a coat stand, a clothes rail and a bench, each with softened corners.

“We developed a shape that combines a circle with a pentagon,” Claesson explained. “The chair, the table, the clothes rail and the other members of the Five family all share this iconic shape.”

Legs equally spaced at the corners of table tops and seats are denoted by indentations on the surfaces.

Some items are available with sections or just the dents coloured red. The chairs also come entirely in the same bright shade.

The chairs still have four legs, two of which are angled to meet the ends of the curved element that forms the arms and back. A fifth vertical strut is used to brace this piece in the centre.

One of the legs of a stool is extended through the seat to form a coat stand, with angled branches attached to the pole for storing garments.

A clothes rail is formed from a simple wooden beam with ends that gently point upward, which hangs from the ceiling on thin red strings.

The Five range will be unveiled at the Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair, which opens on 4 February as part of Stockholm Design Week.

Claesson Koivisto Rune is also presenting a modular table with plug sockets within the structure in Stockholm next week.

Photographs are by Takumi Ota.

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The wooden base of this sofa by Swedish firm Note Design Studio extends outwards to become a side table.

The low table was formed by continuing the ash wood platform out from one end of the sofa, which is part of Note‘s Rise collection designed for Swedish furniture brand Fogia.

“The integrated side table becomes a bridge between the piece of furniture and the rest of the room,” said the designers. “A surface for a still life, a favourite book, plants or whatever you choose to have close at hand.”

Rounded soft cushions covered in quilted upholstery sit on top of the base. The collection is named Rise because the seat backs are shaped to resemble the sun coming up over the horizon.

Note created the range for use in both domestic and commercial settings. The high back is designed to shield the sitters from an open-plan office space that could be situated behind.

“It’s a sofa with is own expression,” Note’s Cristiano Pigazzini told Dezeen. “We got inspired by the shape of the rising sun to create a piece of furniture that stand alone, a elegant centrepiece for both home and public spaces.”

The sofas are available with or without arms, and the range also includes a footstool with a matching base and fabric.

The series will be on show at the Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair and Note’s open exhibition at the Old Luma Factory during Stockholm Design Week, which starts on Monday.

Photographs are by Mathias Nero.

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Maison&Objet 2014: British designer Sebastian Bergne has created a letter stand from a folded sheet of metal to keep post and stationery tidied away.

Sebastian Bergne‘s Post Point letter holder for French brand L’Atelier d’exercises is bent from a single piece of steel painted white.

The steel sheet is folded in four places to create a niche for resting new envelopes, important post or mail that needs to be sent, and a smaller raised dent for holding pens.

“A home for your letter writing paraphernalia or a stand for your incoming or outgoing mail, Post Point accommodates envelopes, cards and pens,” said Bergne.

The shape narrows diagonally after each crease in the material to look like the back of an envelope. A small magnet holds stamps in place.

The letter holder can be hooked onto the wall using a hole in the back or simply rested on a flat surface. Post Point is on show at this year’s Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris, which concludes tomorrow.

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French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has wrapped a pattern of woven rattan around one side of this radio for design brand Lexon, which is on show at the Maison&Objet trade fair that begins today in Paris.

Lehanneur used the natural material on his Hybrid radio for Lexon as a contrast to the digital technology. “Digital intelligence is blended here with a raw material, what might be called smart and craft,” said Lehanneur.

Formed from dried palm-like grasses and woven into a flexible material, the rattan is wrapped around one of the curved ends of the radio and framed by plastic on all sides.

Disks sticking out of the other end control the volume and radio frequency, which is shown using a small digital display on the front. The chunky antenna that pops from the top can be adjusted up and down to receive the best signal.

Small and large sizes are available, and both come with either a white or graphite-coloured case. The radio is being presented at Maison&Objet fair at the Nord Villepinte exhibition centre outside Paris, which commences today and runs until 28 January.

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