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Bringing the outside in with WIRED's pick of city-inspired design.
If castles, kings and queens seem like the tokens of an anachronistic social hierarchy, then swap them for today's symbol of wealth and power - the skyscraper. In this London-themed chess set, Big Ben takes rook, pawns are houses and you call checkmate by taking One Canada Square. £80
Bringing the mind-bending physics of Inception into waking life, the Wave City table curves up to support a flipped-over cityscape. Each miniature building is 3D-printed, then attached to the steel-reinforced frame. €6,500
Whether it's the perfectly perpendicular grid of New York's streets, Paris's radiating avenues or London's tangle of alleyways, the distinctive urban layouts of nine major cities - including Tokyo, Barcelona and Jerusalem - are easily recognisable in Tel Aviv-based jewellery designer Talia Sari Wiener's handmade collection of necklaces, rings and brooches. From $64
Flipping architectural convention, David Graas's Art Deco-inspired skyscraper shades turn your ceiling into an inverted cityscape. The 3D-printed shades hang from low energy LED bulbs, which emit minimal heat, ensuring you don't end up with melted plastic stalagmites on the carpet. €175
Inspired by the work of photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, who chronicled the typology of industrial architecture, these vases are handcrafted in Jingdezhen, the ceramics centre of China, and sit on gold-plated stands. €89
To translate the Chinese garden tradition of miniaturised shrine architecture into indoor furniture, designer Naihan Li took her inspiration from more modern monuments, including this rosewood wardrobe that doubles as a 1:100 scale replica of the iconic CCTV headquarters in Shanghai. £poa
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