The 2010s were a period of great transition.
On a surface level, interiors blushed millennial pink, spending time outdoors became aspirational once again, people flocked towards doing things "for the 'gram", and nearly everyone owned at least something – a pair of sunglasses, an iPhone charger cable, a fork – in rose gold.
But while things may have looked placid, the world was still emerging from the vice-like grip of a global economic recession. The 2010s had austere beginnings, and things didn't entirely get better from there: the election of Donald Trump, a rise in right-wing extremism, Brexit and a refugee crisis and the inescapable reality of the climate crisis.
