Compiled in collaboration with trend expert Anne Marie Commandeur of Stijlinstituut Amsterdam, a leading fashion, textiles and material agency, the Global Colour Trend Forecast looks at how colour will impact commercial spaces in the forthcoming years. Presenting Grow alongside three other key themes of Play, Primal and Reflect; the forecast is now in its fifth edition, available in hardcopy and digital download from antron.eu.
Focusing on green, Grow addresses our need to feel closer to nature, tacking the nature-deficit caused by increased urban living through offering manmade or engineered nature. It smartly mimics botanicals and earth in rich, nature inspired colours, patterns and textures.
Anne Marie Commandeur of Stijlinstituut Amsterdam, explains: “We want to wrap ourselves in nature, especially when living and working in an urban environment. Textiles offer the best possible options to engineer, mimic and replicate nature’s optics and surfaces. They simultaneously add a human touch to textures that are cold by nature: marble, sand and stone imitations, wood, and ore contain this surprising, rare element of natural imperfection, yet can be translated into carpet to create the ultimate comfortable, nature-inspired skin, covering the surface we live on.”
The Grow palette is found within INVISTA Antron® Lumenaä carpet fibre, now featuring 19 new colours driven by the results of the forecast. With more than 300 different stain-resistant and fade-resistant colour options, Antron® Lumenaä includes metallic shades in mineral, silver and granite through to vibrant flashes of fuscia, oceanside and citron. Antron® Lumenaä carpet fibre provides carpets with permanent colour through a solution-dyed multi-hollow yarn. With rich and vivid colour, standing up to wear and easy to maintain; Antron® Lumenaä carpet fibre is used in some of the world’s most exclusive carpet designs and performs faultlessly in busy commercial spaces.
The Antron® Global Colour Trend Forecast 2019 has become an important tool for commercial carpet manufacturers to develop new products that reflect trends in commercial interiors. It can also help workspace designers to create colour schemes for places that keep up with the changing needs of individuals.