Architect Chris Bosse not only designs buildings and catwalk sculptures, but now also designs office furniture.

Bosse has created a series of distinctive geometric desk screens for Climate, a new office furniture system produced by Schiavello.

LAVA's three Climate screens, with matching office supplies, were launched at in Design in Melbourne on Saturday, August 7.

The screens draw on the design and structures of trees, soap bubbles, coral reefs and spider webs.

"Inspired by the efficiency and beauty in nature’s geometries, we created a playful sliding screen that allows the porosity or openness to be controlled, providing flexibility in creating work spaces," Bosse says.

"Developed using a digital workflow, the sliding animates the screens and allows them to create additional patterns, in line with the LAVA philosophy of creating more with less."

The holistic approach of Climate shapes a new work scene that promotes empowerment, collaboration and diversity within the workplace.

Designers were commissioned to design elements: LAVA, fashion designers Akira Isogawa, Melbourne-based S!X (Denise Sprynskyj & Peter Boyd) and Italian colour and textiles designer Giulio Ridolfo.

Climate evolved from a conversation in 2002 between Peter Schiavello, now managing director of Schiavello, and Peter Geyer about what the future of work would be.

As a result, Peter Schiavello invited Peter Geyer to develop a concept from ground up and without any presumptions other than that the outcome should be future focussed.

Architecture & Design Team

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