International Contemporary Furniture Fair designs

Cara McCarty admires Tracy Kendall’s wallpaper. “What I like about this is it’s really a piece of conceptual art,” says the curatorial director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewett National Design Museum.

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Visitors check out Yves Behar’s prototype sofa for HBF: a minimalist curve cloaked in cloud-white lamb’s wool and equipped with a built-in desk that slides along the front on a track underneath the sofa. The C Collection was conceived as office furniture — a place where employees could lounge in comfort, brainstorm ideas, take notes and work on their laptops.

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At the Pablo booth, fair-goers rotate a magnetized aluminum arm of LED lamps along a steel block base, instantly shifting the 18 lights with seamless ease. The magnetic design means light can be directed down over a desk, bounced up off the ceiling or even shined sideways onto a wall for ambient illumination — all from a piece no thicker than a ruler.

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Joris Laarman’s WirePod for Artecnica is a decorative riff on the humble surge protector: The vine-like design has individual outlets in the curls.

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Kartell’s Flip is a folding bar table whose plastic is so flawless in color and translucency that it looks like glass.

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The Dutch collective Moooi’s carbon fiber chair takes a sculptural turn.

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