Thanks for your very interesting comment, Deb. I agree, actually, both about the need for more imaginative window coverings and on the question of design coincidence and how hard that is to track. The creative process is very complicated and is fertilized in so many different ways. Similar design solutions can easily be arrived at independently and from wildly different starting points. Designs are just in the air sometimes. Occasionally we’ve been quite discouraged to find that a new design of ours is oddly similar to something someone else has just devised, so we know it cuts both ways. In this case the common point is a collapsing, folding geometry, which is not a new idea and which is made more likely to arise now in this current climate of intensive experimentation with computer algorithms and geometry. I personally think the use of magnets is quite brilliant – interesting, different, aesthetically appealing. Anyway, thanks again. It was very interesting to read Florian’s remarks. We of course did not mean to point any fingers – our interest was piqued by the reader comments on the mocoloco post. – Lindsay