Dezeen promotion: Danish designer Cecilie Manz has collaborated with Bang & Olufsen to design a portable speaker that offers 360 degrees of sound.
Unveiled at Milan design week, the Beoplay P6 was designed by Manz and Bang & Olufsen to be beautiful, while also offering a rich quality of sound.
It forms part of the collection of products offered by B&O Play, Bang & Olufsen's specialist headphone and speaker brand.

"We wanted really powerful sound in a very small package, and we wanted a 360 degree array of sound because we knew that people move around their homes in their daily activities," Kalle Nordbo concept and design manager of B&O Play told Dezeen.
"People like music, it lifts up people's lives," continued Nordbo. "This compact form can be placed anywhere. Cecilie had some interesting ideas about two aluminium shells coming together, but we also wanted to challenge aluminium as a material."
The speaker's shell is constructed from anodised and pearl-blasted aluminium, which is perforated with Bang & Olufsen's characteristic hole pattern.
The biggest challenge was creating a form that allowed for this pattern, but which could also be gripped from any angle.

"With Beoplay P6, we really pushed the physical limits of the material by punching holes into a three-dimensional aluminium shell," Manz told Dezeen.

The speaker blends technological innovation with a retro twist, explained Manz. "The b...