Top six modern interiors trends that’ll transform your home in 2022
telegraph.co.ukinteriors event is back. The big Italian furniture companies, along with designers and brands from all over the world, showcased their latest homeware collections – which had been kept a closely guarded secret – at the huge Salone del Mobile trade fair, as well as at showrooms and pop-up exhibitions all over the city.
And although the designer pieces that were on display there might be beyond the budgets of most, you can expect to see their like hitting the British high street in the very near future.“Milan is our most important event of the year, in terms of product development but also because of the brands that exhibit there,” says Sabina Miller, buying director at Heal’s. “It’s where you see how a homeware trend starts to take shape.
Sometimes you’ll see something that fizzles out – copper lighting for example, which was everywhere about eight years ago – and sometimes it gains momentum.”Bouclé upholstery fabric, for instance, which started to appear in Milan three years ago, can now be seen on armchairs everywhere from Habitat and Anthropologie to Dunelm and La Redoute, and it’s a trend that’s set to stick around. “Five years ago it was all about velvet,” says Miller, “whereas now textured fabrics have taken over.”Rounded furniture, which suits bouclé upholstery so well, is another trend that had its first expression in Milan a few years ago, Miller notes.
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