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Tesler Mendelovitch Great Rose Clutch
Carved from a single piece of rosewood, this clutch bag is the result of a three-year study into the use of wood as a fabric. Its Tel Aviv-based designers discovered that a geometric underbelly fitting your fingers can give the impression of malleability in a material that will last considerably longer than leather. Hinged and lined with cowhide, it has a spacious and soft interior, but it's best not to drop this on your toes. £440
To make drinking fresh milk more appealing to Swedish schoolchildren, Love Hultèn has designed a mobile milk cooler that is itself hard to resist. Its perforated birch body has fun details and textures that children will want to touch, and the 14 litres of milk within are refrigerated by a Peltier-based cooling system -- thankfully insulated from any probing, sticky fingers by a layer of foam. £tbc
The teak-clad deck of this high-performance tender is the result of Frauscher's collaboration with a team of Austrian automotive designers at KISKA. They set about improving the latest Fantom with retractable stainless steel fittings, matching electronic anchor and a Bose audio system. Most striking, though, are the teak-lined cabin, control panels and Sun deck -- a design trait not often seen in the automotive industry. €182,000
By considering the blade itself to be the defining feature of a knife, Federal Inc's design team realised that the rest of the utensil need not be made of the same material. So the Maple Set's two knives rely on narrow but very sharp steel blades held in maple frames. The contrast in hard and soft materials combines visual appeal with practicality. £tbc
**[Bang
& Olufsen Beolab 18](https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en)**
A delicate lamellae of oak slats radiates from B&O's latest loudspeaker, dispersing audio evenly from two powered drive units, improving the spread of sound. Instead of ugly cables, the WiSA technology built into each speaker enables a stable wireless connection that is capable of transmitting uncompressed 24-bit HD music directly to a <span class="s1">compatible hi-fi. £4,780
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