Trine draws design inspiration from the usual sources but also from junkyards and material suppliers. “The octahedron side table I do, which is my bestselling product, came about because there was a 24-inch disc of sheet metal at the salvage yard and I bought it for four dollars. I had already been riffing on this octahedron shape back in grad school, and I went, ‘Oh, I wonder if I can just scale that up and make a side table.’ And that was it. I didn’t set out to design a side table.”