We see a subtly different approach to gender in the work of the Italian metal brand De Castelli, which, for the 2017 Salone del Mobile furniture fair, commissioned seven female designers to design furniture to “soften” the cold, hard masculine image of metal. Francesca Lanzavecchia’s Scribble is a family of curvy, undulating coffee tables, oxidised and polished, like metallic versions of worms.