Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Certain design innovations and ideas take root in our homes almost immediately, from dishwashers to wireless speakers. Some things become anachronisms and vanish, like VCRs. Others lose popularity, like a new family piano. A few take time to be appreciated: the Modernist metal-framed leather armchairs by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand took more than 50 years to shift from edgy to omnipresent.The recently opened exhibition Changing Spaces: 60 Years of Design with Habitat, at the Design Museum in London, features an overview of objects that have come to define our homes, straddling decades in two very different-looking centuries.Go back to the 1960s, and you find the chicken brick, designed to bake a chicken and keep it moist, in an era when the British didn’t know how to cook. Later, came the duvet and the wok. In the 1970s, rowing machines began appearing in homes, only to gather dust. Fitness now looks better: the Kyora balance board designed by Studio Mama for Cotto Sports is sculptural and functional. Give your core a workout, then hang the board on the wall, where it looks like a piece of folk art.There are many barometers of how we live now and will live in the future, from the colours of this season’s Le Creuset to the stands of the annual Salone del Mobile fair in Milan. But what will our homes look like 60 years from now? A few things seem certain: green technology will thrive. Everything will, surely, be wireless. Filtered, chilled, sparkling water will flow from various taps in various flavours. Bathrooms will have super-flush Toto-type bidet seats. Environmentally friendly versions of sous-vide cookers could be in the mix. But so will simpler things we continue to take for granted.With this in mind, 10 UK-based design experts pick the things, new and old, that they believe will continue to shape our futures.“Changing Spaces: 60 Years of Design with Habitat” at the Design Museum, July 10-August 11Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram
