10 essentials to help you set up your home office

Due to the coronavirus shutdown, many of us are now working from home. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out 10 furniture and accessory designs to help you set up a home office or workspace, not matter how small your space.

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Rail Wall Desk by Keiji Ashizawa

For those without a whole room to spare, a shelf can create a makeshift desk in a hallway, living room or bedroom. This one, designed by Keiji Ashizawa for Menu, attaches to the wall with a steel bracket, which makes it sturdy and helps to define a workspace.

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Hyg Chair by Simon Legald

Launched earlier this year, the versatile Hyg Chair by Simon Legald for Normann Copenhagen is available with legs, a swivel-base, wheels or as a bar stool, so there is one for every possible home office situation. The curved shell seat makes it comfortable enough to work in all day.

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AJ Table Mini by Arne Jacobsen

Legendary Danish designer Arne Jacobsen first designed the AJ Lamp series for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen in 1960. To mark its 60th birthday, lighting brand Louis Poulsen is relaunching the desk lamp version, which is well suited to task lighting.

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Relate Side Table by Big-Game

This clever side table by Swiss studio Big-Game for Muuto makes it easier to work while seated on a sofa. You can put a laptop on it, or simply use it as a surface for books or papers.

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Tool Box by Shane Schneck

Although it looks like a tool box, this storage container by Shane Schneck for Hay also makes a great place to store pens and other stationery. For those without a fixed desk in the home, it also makes it easy to move your bits from room to room.

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A-Frame Canteen Desk

Cast aluminium A-frame legs give character to this simple, lightweight desk. With its simple linoleum top, the deck by Very Good & Proper can easily double as a dining table.

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Rookie by Konstantin Grcic

German designer Konstantin Grcic has developed many office furniture designs over the years, including the Allstar chair that features at the Dezeen offices. Rookie for Vitra is one of the simplest – an affordable task chair that offers plenty of comfort.

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W182 Pastille by Industrial Facility

The W182 Pastille creates ambient light rather than focused light, allowing for a better lit workspace. A new version of the lamp for Wastberg, due out in the shops in late 2020, features an integrated USB-C port, so it can charge a MacBook at the same time.

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AAC 121 Soft by Hee Welling

Generous upholstery make this seat by Hee Welling for Hay more comfortable than the average office chair. Its quilted seat is available in a range of fabrics, while a high back offers a good amount of lumbar support.

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2x2 Organiser by Jamie Wolfond

The latest collection of homeware and accessories from Danish brand Ferm Living includes this simple but practical desk tidy. It consists of two pieces of metal, bent to create a pair of stacked trays.

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Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 6 April

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes Apple making face shields, 100 architecture films, and the Hygiene Hand.

Apple to begin design and production of face shields

Apple is the latest company to announce that it will be creating face shields for medical workers. "Our design, engineering, operations and packaging teams are also working with suppliers to design, produce and ship face shields for medical workers," tweeted Apple CEO Tim Cook (via Tim Cook's Twitter)

Creative Industries Federation and Crowdfunder launch Pay It Forward campaign

To support creatives in the UK to generate immediate revenue the Creative Industries Federation and Crowdfunder have launch Pay It Forward, a campaign to support creatives. As part of the initiative Crowdfunder is waiving its fees for projects that aim to tackle the impact of the pandemic (via Crowdfunder).

StatGear designs Hygiene Hand to avoid touching surfaces

StatGear, a company founded by a retired New York paramedic, has designed a brass keychain that has a pointer and a hook so that people can reduce the number of surfaces they touch (via Fast Company).

100 architecture films by Jim Stephenson 

Architectural photographer Jim Stephenson has collected 100 short, two to four minute, films about buildings in the UK. The films focus on buildings by Kengo Kuma, Herzog & de Meuron, BIG, Foster & Partners, Grimshaw and many others (via Vimeo).

Designers should "seize the moment" to make positive change says Design Justice author Sasha Costanza-Chock

The coronavirus crisis offers a "great possibility" for community-led change, says MIT associate professor Sasha Costanza-Chock, whose new book Design Justice explores how design can help marginalised communities and promote equality (via Dezeen).

Getty Trust launches $10 million arts relief fund

The Getty Trust has established a $10 million (£8.1 million) fund to aid small and midsize organisations arts in Los Angeles County impacted by the coronavirus pandemic (via Art Forum).

Qatar creates fund for sick construction workers as labour-camps locked down

Qatar has created a $800 million (£650 million) fund to support migrant workers who are impacted by coronavirus as they are unable to work. The news follows the country's largest labour camp, in the Industrial Area of Doha, being put on lockdown (Via Global Construction Review).

Penguin donates books to elderly and isolated

Penguin and Neighbourly.com have partnered to distribute thousands of books to those who are isolated and in need (via Penguin Books Twitter).

Yield designs hand sanitiser to help shortage during Covid-19

Florida design studio Yield is using its production facility to create a spray hand sanitiser to help reduce the spread of Covid-19 (via Dezeen).

ServiceShop helps artists and food banks during crisis

Online print store ServiceShop has been set up to help artists who have lost work due to the pandemic sell their work and participate in mutual aid, with a percentage of the profits donated to food bank charity the Trussell Trust (via ServiceShop).

Dirty Furniture magazine launches design conversation series

Magazine Dirty Furniture has launched an initiative called Named Dirty Furniture Calling that will consist of a series of Zoom calls every Tuesday throughout the pandemic. This Tuesday's call is between Joseph Grima, creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven, and Jan Boelen, head of Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. (via Dirty Furniture).

Keep up with developments by following Dezeen's coverage of the coronavirus outbreak.

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Lukas Keysell’s meditative illustrations teach us a lesson in patience

Lukas discusses his acrylic paintings which began as a cathartic exercise, and which are now a prominent element of his multi-disciplinary practice.

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With bold colours and characters, Martcellia Liunic’s works are “the right combination of cute and trippy”

The Jakarta-based illustrator also runs her own clothing brand called Liunic on Things.

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A swimsuit collaboration and a custom typeface inspired by Pierre Guariche, Twice Studio gets more interdisciplinary

The Paris-based studio talk us through two recent projects: an eco-friendly campaign for Atelier Bartavelle and the identity for a new collection by contemporary lighting company Sammode.

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