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Above the large space where that exhibition was held, which was empty the day we visited, hangs this triangular speaker that Uglycute originally designed for the first Cheap Monday store, in Copenhagen. The award-winning shop design won the group international recognition, and Cheap Monday (now owned by H&M) has become their biggest and steadiest client. Triangles recur throughout a great deal of Uglycute’s work, but when it came to this project, there was a reason: “At the time we hadn’t done a retail job before, and when we started to study what sold the best in that environment, it’s the pile,” Nobel explains. “You pile the clothes in a pyramid, people think they’re less expensive, and then they buy more. So the triangle is the ultimate pile. Now the triangle has become a theme for their interiors, and the work we do with them.”