Planning a space for work within the home has become a need for everyone, a need that will most likely go beyond the emergency of the moment which, moreover, will lead us to rethink all our habits. The home office is a space that sometimes merges with the living room, but more and more often becomes an environment in its own right: to be able to concentrate at best, but also to maintain a dividing line between the work space and the space of affections, a demarcation that we are ready to question but that we need to give our best in both spheres. So how does the work space inside the house change? It is increasingly large, structured and definitive, but also elegant, well designed and set up with furnishings of great beauty and quality. This is not a temporary solution, but a structure designed to last, even when we will be free to meet again. Functional and prestigious, a well-equipped home office must be able to represent and identify the depth of our skills, and be able to satisfy our professional needs. Let’s see some ideas together to rethink, to improve it, our work space at home.

The desk is the place of connection

Modern by Porro

Agile and functional: this is how the workstation should be, the one where we will place the computer, through which we will connect with the rest of our professional world. This is why the Modern  desk designed for Porro  by Piero Lissoni  in 2007 is perfect: the designer, with praiseworthy foresight, understood that our professional interlocutors would be on the other side of the screen and no longer on the other side of the desk. And here is the desk suspended from a wall panel and also has a retractable drawer.

The library is light

Let’s forget the traditional bookcases, loaded and dusty, the library of a smart workspace is neat, it lets light, air and ideas flow. Like Air by Daniele Lago  for Lago , with shelves in lacquered wood or Wildwood oak juxtaposed with the glass supports that convey great lightness and elegance. Self standing and double-sided, it is also ideal for marking spaces, after all, like all the furnishings in the Air collection, the bookcase also seems to float and let the light filter, giving order and beauty (on the cover).

The "register" is informal

Jalousi by Normann Copenaghen

Everything must be in order, of course, and various documents and papers must have a location in a closed cabinet. We do not think of metal filing cabinets, but rather of contemporary and functional, but informal ensembles. Like the line of Jalousi  container furniture by Simon Legald  for Normann Copenaghen : the inspiration is from the 1950s but updated and made informal.

The meeting table is iconic

LC6 by Cassina

The meeting table is an element of "representation" in its most substantial sense, because it represents our role within the work group. But it is also a large and precious space when we have to consult papers and volumes, in addition to the computer. And if it is true that today's meetings are only virtual, tomorrow we will come back to meet each other live, that's why a large table continues to be useful in a workspace. LC6  by Le Corbusier  for Cassina  is prestigious and iconic and responds perfectly to function.

The armchairs are sober but welcoming

Louise by Zanotta

The workspace recounts our passions, reconciles reflections and nourishes ideas. To perform all these functions it is also important to have a corner in which to indulge in free thinking, far from any device, sitting comfortably. In the image, the Louise  armchair by Philippe Nigro  for Zanotta . The structure is in black or burgundy lacquered solid beech wood. Seat and back are in poplar plywood with polyurethane padding.

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