Now the dust has settled on the fair for another year, some of the most striking observations from the world's biggest and most important design gathering relate to what wasn't there, rather than what was. With key brands absent, politics off the agenda and China barely mentioned, the week offers a somewhat outmoded view of what design means today.
However most fairgoers seemed blissfully unconcerned by this, mindlessly instagramming everything in sight and calling out ever-shallower trends based on the flimsiest of evidence.