Candy Cubicle is a desk by Sabine Marcelis, created as part of the Design Museum's Connected project at London Design Festival, that hides its contents inside a pale wooden shell when they are not in use.
The wooden box sits on hidden wheels and can be opened along a central axis, transforming it from a block into an L-shaped desk setup.
This offers storage for books and documents on one side and space for a computer on the other.
Marcelis created the piece in response to a brief by the Design Museum and the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), which called for nine international designers to develop a wooden desk and chair set up to suit their "new ways of working from and living at home" during lockdown.
Candy Cubicle was designed not for Marcelis herself but for her partner, an architect with whom she shares a loft together with their newborn baby.
"He has a big screen, which has taken over our dining table for the past month," said Marcelis.
"It's super annoying – it's always there, it's ugly. I just want to be able to hide it. The desk is something that can be transformed from working mode and then back into hiding mode. It means we won’t constantly be confronted with work equipment."