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BOFFI

Boffi is a big name in both kitchen and bathroom design. One of the new ranges to stem from Boffi focuses on what it is calling ‘the value of materials’. Sleek by design, the Aprile kitchen has come from designer Piero Lissoni. Capturing the essence of simplicity, handles and appliances are all integrated and kept – rather beautifully – out of direct sight. We love the seamless stainless-steel worktop option, but best of all, possibly, is the open shelving. It’s like Lissoni has created a seriously stylish commercial kitchen, but with tactility and warmth for the modern home. Aprile Sloane, price on request, Piero Lissoni, Boffi

SCAVOLINI

Bathroom design hasn’t escaped a streamlined touch, with Scavolini unveiling its Formalia bathroom range designed by Vittore Niolu. It has ‘rust matt lacquered doors’ incorporated into it so that you hide all your essentials below the basin. The top is porcelain finished with black profile fittings. The design detail is the ‘built-in’ drawer handle. So clever and simple that you’d be forgiven for not even noticing it. Now that’s a sign of good design. Formalia, price on request, Vittore Niolu, Scavolini RIMADESIO

Paring design right back to a striking simplicity, Rimadesio has just announced the Maxi sliding doors, a partition system designed to ‘separate but not divide’. Designed by Giuseppe Bavuso, it is the ninth product in the brand’s Sliding Panels range. It’s customisable, designed from an irregular aluminum structure that has individual sections of transparent glass – giving it that extreme sense of transparency. It’s hung from a simple ‘sliding rail’ designed so that you can open and close the doors with absolute silence. This is seriously chic. Maxi sliding doors, £2,419.20 incl VAT, Giuseppe Bavuso for Rimadesio