Monforte, created by Italian architect and designer Raffaella Mangiarotti for IOC, is a sculptural, undulating room divider that can be used to separate desks and entire self-enclosed meeting rooms.

SINCE writing the letter published in NATURE of August 19, p. 247, my attention has been directed to a paper on “Sound Proof Partitions” by Prof. R. F. Watson (University of Illinois Bulletin ...