World's Coolest In-Box

So stylish you might even do your work so you can look at it empty.

Designed by Hani Rashid for Alessi.

$36 at Alessi's new SoHo store (130 Greene Street; 212-941-7300), opening at the end of August.

FunFact: Rashid, along with Lise-Anne Couture of Asymptote, a New York-based architecture firm, designed the store, which will feature a coffee bar near the front entrance that will open every morning before the store itself.

FunFact #2: In England an in-box is called an in-tray — you could look it up.

[via Stephen Treffinger's "Currents" feature in the August 10 New York Times]