At Home at Work as a macro trend today

For some, it will be remembered as a time of anguish over failing relationships, financial crises, or losing loved ones to Covid-19. Even for those who are spared such distress, the collective trauma may prompt them to radically reconsider how they wish to live and work in the future.

Observing this general trend, I noticed three directions (or ideas) that can be applied to develop personal concepts for this project. First, how the furniture is changing and how designers aim to add a variety of functions to one simple object. Second, how people (who before the virus have preformed their videos from professional studios, or never broadcast) were affected, how they aim to hide their environment. Vise versa, how they started to express their personality through objects from home interiors on videos. Third, what other challenges (apart from manufacture reassignment) the luxury industry has met during this shifting time. Mainly what additional functionality luxury objects can acquire to be sold.

Spanish furniture designer Fernando Abellanas, who, unable to afford studio rents in Valencia, constructed a suspended workspace with a desk, seat and shelves beneath a concrete road bridge.