Spot the trend at the Milan furniture fair: Triangles

Chauncey Zalkin, founder of What Women Make and an advocate for female innovation and creativity, reports for mydeco on the triangle trend sweeping this years Milan Furniture Fair.

Wooden podiums at Wallpaper Handmade at Brioni:

I took my usual hunt-for-female-talent cap off and put on my trend cap to troll the fiera and all of the design districts in Milan during design week, so that I could report on the surprising and delightful trends for the mydeco readers.

Julien de Smedt at Belgium Is Design:

At first, I was struggling to find anything new and revolutionary that hadn’t evolved from trends already in full swing. Re-purposed materials? yes. Sustainable design? yes. Many-tentacled light fixtures? Yes. Modular furniture? Yes. But what was really new? And then I spotted something fundamental that had changed. Where I used to see squares and blocks, I now saw triangles. Geometric shapes are nothing new but the prevalence of the three-sided seems to have usurped the primacy of the parallelogram.

Here are all the times I could say ‘I spy with my little eye, a triangle’ during my four days in Milan:

Table by Eyal Burstein who won the Designers of the Future Award for his pieces that double as social commentary:

Chair at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:

Chair by Bakery at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:

RCA Student Show at Ventura Lambrate:

Platter at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:

Lighting at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:

Joints to make triangles at Salone Satellite:

At ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:

Table by Design POOL:

D.R.Y. (Don’t Repeat Yourself) by Vincent Van Duysen at D.R.Y.:

D.R.Y.:

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All images are accredited to Chauncey Zalkin